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OF  THE 

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NEW    JERSEY 

SCHOOL   LAWS, 

Revision  of   1902, 


WITH 


Notes,  Blanks    and    Forms 


FOR   THE 


USE  AND  GOVERNMENT  OF  SCHOOL  OFFICERS. 


PREPARED    BY 'THE 
STATE   SUPERINTENDENT   OF   PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION. 


To  be  Preserved  and  Delivered  by  each  Officer  to  his  Successor 


TRENTON,  N.  J. : 
THE  JOHN  L.  MURPHY  PUBLISHING  Co.,  PRINTERS. 

1902. 


N 

11 


CONTENTS. 


Page. 

Agricultural  College 112 

Blanks  and  Forms  for  School  Officers 141 

Boards  of  Education  in  City  School  Districts,  Article  VI 23 

Boards  of  Education  in  Township,  Incorporated  Town  and  Borough  School  Dis- 
tricts, Article  VII 35 

Boards  of  Examiners,  Article  IV 15 

Children's  Guardians,  State  Board  of 118 

Compulsory  Education,  Article  XV 61 

Constitution,  Extracts  from 5 

County  Superintendents,  Article  III 13 

Crimes  Act,  Extracts  from , 115 

Custodian  of  School  Moneys,  Article  XIX 78 

Disorderly  Persons,  Extracts  from  Law 115 

District  Tax,  Article  XVIII 75 

Evening  Schools,  Article  XIII 60 

Free  Lectures Ill 

Industrial  Schools 109 

Kindergartens,  Article  XII 59 

Manual  Training,  Article  XXIV 89 

Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School  for  Colored  Youth,  Article  XXIII 88 

Miscellaneous,  Article  XXIX 103 

New  Jersey  School  for  the  Deaf,  Article  XXII 85 

Pupils,  Article  IX 47 

Rules  and  Regulations  Prescribed  by  the  State  Board  of  Education 123 

Salaries  of  Teachers  and  Principals,  Article  XXVIII 98 

School  Districts,  Article  V 17 

School  District  Bonds,  Article  XX 81 

School  Fund,  Article  XVI 66 

School-Houses,  Article  X. 50 

School  Libraries,  Article  XXV 90 

State  Board  of  Education,  Article  1 7 

State  Normal  School,  Article  XXI 84 

State  School  Tax,  Article  XVII 68 

State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  Article  II 8 

Teachers,  Article  VIII 43 

Teachers'  Libraries,  Article  XXVI.... 91 

Teachers'  Retirement  Fund,  Article  XXVII 91 

Text-Books  and  Supplies,  Article  XIV 60 

Union-Graded  Schools,  Article  XI 53 

(3) 


>09 


EXTRACTS 

From  the  State  Constitution  Respecting  Public  Schools. 


SECTION  VII. 

6.  The  fund  for  the  support  of  free  schools,  and  all  money, 
stock  and  other  property  which  may  hereafter  be  appropriated  for 
that  purpose,  or  received  into  the  treasury  under  the  provision  of 
any  law  heretofore  passed  to  augment  the  said  fund,  shall  be 
securely  invested  and  remain  a  perpetual  fund;  and  the  income 
thereof,  except  so  much  as  it  may  be  judged  expedient  to  apply  to 
an  increase  of  the  capital,  shall  be  annually  appropriated  to  the 
support  of  public  free  schools,  for  the  equal  benefit  of  all  the 
people  of  the  state;  and  it  shall  not  be  competent  for  the  legis- 
lature to  borrow,  appropriate  or  use  the  said  fund,  or  any  part 
thereof,  for  any  other  purpose,  under  any  pretence  whatever ;  the 
legislature  shall  provide  for  the  maintenance  and  support  of  a 
thorough  and  efficient  system  of  free  public  schools  for  the  instruc- 
tion of  all  the  children  in  this  state  between  the  ages  of  five 
and  eighteen  years. 

11.  The  legislature  shall  not  pass  private,  local  or  special  laws 
providing  for  the  management  and  support  of  free  public  schools. 

(5) 


School  Law. 


An  Act  to  establish  a  system  of  public  instruction, 

BE  IT  ENACTED  by  the  Senate  and  General  Assembly 
of  the  State  of  New  Jersey: 


AETICLE  I. 

STATE   BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 

1.  The  general  supervision  and  control  of  public  in- 
struction  shall  be  vested  in  a  state  board  of  education, 
which  shall  consist  of  two  members  from  each  congres- 
sional district,  who  shall  not  be  members  of  the  same 
political  party,  and  who  shall  not  reside  in  the  same 
county  except  where  a  congressional  district  shall  lie 

wholly  within  one  county.     Said  members  shall  be  ap-  Appointment, 
pointed  by  the  governor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  senate,  each  for  the  term  of  five  years;  Term, 
and  in  the  place  of  any  member  whose  term  shall  expire 
a  successor  shall  be  appointed  in  like  manner  for  the 
term  of  five  years,  so  that  there  shall  be  always  two 
members  from  each  congressional  district.     In  case  of  a  vacancy, 
vacancy  a  successor  for  the  unexpired  term  shall  be  ap- 
pointed.   A  suitable  room  in  the  state  house,  at  Trenton, 
shall  be  provided  for  the  use  of  said  board. 

2.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  have  the  con-  control  of  cer- 
trol  and  management  of  the  State  Normal  School,  the  schools. 
New  Jersey  School  for  the  Deaf,  the  Farnum  Prepara- 
tory School  and  the  Manual  Training  and  Industrial 

School  for  Colored  Youth. 

3.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  have  power:  Powers  of. 

(7) 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Make  rules. 


Appoint 
county  super- 
intendents. 

Rules  for  ins 

tutes. 


Authorize  pay- 
ment of  ex- 
penses of  state 
superintend- 
ent. 


Decide  ap- 
peals. 


Rules  for 
teachers'  cer- 
tificates. 


Expenses. 


Annual  report. 


I.  To  frame  and  modify  by-laws  for  its  own  govern- 
ment;   to  elect  its  president  and  other  officers,  and  to 
prescribe  and  enforce  rules  and  regulations  necessary  to 
carry  into  effect  the  school  laws  of  this  state ; 

II.  To  appoint  County  Superintendents  of  Schools, 
and  for  cause  to  remove  them; 

III.  To  prescribe  rules  and  regulations  for  holding 
teachers'  institutes; 

IV.  To  authorize  the  payment  by  the  State  Treasurer, 
upon  the  warrant  of  the  State  Comptroller,  of  the  neces- 
sary incidental  expenses  incurred  by  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  and  the  Assistant  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction-  in  the  perform- 
ance of  their  official  duties; 

V.  To  decide  appeals  from  the  decisions  of  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction; 

VI.  To  make  and  enforce  rules  and  regulations  for 
the  examination  of  teachers,  and  the  granting  of  cer- 
tificates or  licenses  to  teach. 

4.  The  members  of  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall 
receive  no  compensation  for  their  services,  but  the  State 
Treasurer  shall,  upon  the  warrant  of*  the  State  Comp- 
troller, pay  their  necessary  expenses. 

5.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  report  annually 
to  the  Legislature  in  regard  to  all  matters  committed  to 
its  care. 


AETICLE    II. 


STATE    SUPERINTENDENT    OF    PUBLIC    INSTRUCTION. 


Appointment 
ot  state  super- 
intendent. 

Term. 


Salary. 


Location  of 
office. 


6.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  be  appointed  by  the  Governor,  by  and  with  the 
advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  for  the  term  of  five, 
years  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and 
confirmed.  He  shall  receive  a  salary  of  five  thousand 
dollars  a  year,  payable  in  equal  monthly  installments. 
A  suitable  office,  to  be  known  as  the  Department  of  Public 
Instruction,  shall  be  provided  for  him  in  the  State  House 
at  Trenton. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  9 

7.  The   State   Superintendent  of  Public   Instruction  Assistant  state 

•  .  ,  /•  T-»    -I  T      superintend- 

may  appoint  an  Assistant  State  Superintendent  of  Public  ent. 
Instruction.  He  shall  file  a  certificate  of  such  appoint- 
ment in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  and,  with 
the  approval  of  the  Governor,  fix  his  salary,  which  salary 
shall  be  paid  in  the  same  manner  as  the  salary  of  the 
State  Superintendent  shall  be  paid.  Said  Assistant 
Superintendent  shall  perform  all  the  duties  of  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  during  his  ab- 
sence, y 

8.  The   State   Superintendent  of  Public   Instruction  cierts. 
may  employ  such  clerks  as  he  may  deem  necessary,  and, 
with  the  approval  of  the  Governor,  fix  their  compensa- 
tion, which  compensation  shall  be  payable  monthly  on 

the  certificate  of  the   State   Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction ;    provided,  that  the  salary  of  the  Assistant  Proviso. 
Superintendent  and  the  compensation  of  said  clerks  shall 
not  exceed  in  the  aggregate  the  sum  annually  appro- 
priated therefor  by  the  Legislature. 

9.  The   State   Superintendent  of   Public   Instruction  secretary  of 

state  board  of 

shall  be  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  education  and 

member  of 

and  a  member,  ex  officio,  of  all  boards  of  examiners,  boards  of  ex- 

aminers. 

He  shall  enforce  all  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  by 
the  State  Board  of  Education.  He  shall  have  super- 
vision  of  all  the  schools  of  the  state  receiving  any  part 
of  the  state  appropriation.  He  shall,  from  time  to 
time,  instruct  county  and  city  superintendents  as  to 
their  duties  and  as  to  the  best  manner  of  conducting 
schools,  constructing  school-houses  and  furnishing  the 
same. 

10.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  arising  un§eres 
shall  decide,  subject  to  appeal  to  the  State  Board  of  sch°o1  lavv- 
Education  and  without  cost  to  the  parties,  all  contro- 
versies and  disputes  that  shall  arise  under  the  school 

laws,  or  under  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education.  The  facts  involved  in  any  contro- 
versy or  dispute  shall,  if  he  shall  so  require,  be  made 
known  to  him  by  written  statements  by  the  parties 
thereto,  verified  by  oath  or  affirmation,  and  accompanied 
by  certified  copies  of  all  documents  necessary  to  a  full 
understanding  of  the  question  in  dispute,  and  his  deci- 


10  SCHOOL  LAW. 

sion  shall  be  binding  until,  upon  appeal,  a  decision  shall 
be  given  by  the  State  Board  of  Education,  (a) 

Keep,  record  of  11.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  keep  a  record  of  all  his  official  acts  and  shall  pre- 
serve copies  of  all  decisions  made  by  him,  and  shall 

official  seal.  adopt  and  provide  an  official  seal.  Copies  of  al]  acts, 
orders  and  decisions  made  by  him,  and  of  all  papers 
deposited  or  filed  in  the  Department  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion may  be  authenticated  under  said  seal,  and,  when 
so  authenticated,  shall  be  evidence  equally  with  and  in 
like  manner  as  the  originals. 

^upCTiStendent       12'  Whenever  there  shall  be  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of 

to  en  vacancy.  County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  the  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction  shall  appoint,  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  President  of  the  State  Board  of 
Education,  a  suitable  person  to  fill  such  vacancy,  and 
the  person  so  appointed  shall  hold  office  until  his  successor 
shall  be  appointed  by  the  State  Board  of  Education. 

13>  ^n  case  a  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall 
ueglect  or  refuse  to  perform  any  duty  imposed  upon  him 
by  this  act  or  by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education,  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  shall,  subject  to  appeal  to  the  State  Board 
of  Education,  withhold  from  such  County  Superintend- 
ent  of  Schools  the  order  for  his  salary  until  he  shall 
have  fully  complied  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  and 
with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of 
Education  relating  to  his  duties. 

^-  ^n  case  a  board  of  education,  or  any  officer  thereof, 
rict.  or  the  legal  voters  Of  anv  school  district,  or  any  board 
or  officer  of  the  municipality  in  which  any  such  school 
district  shall  be  situate  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  perform 

(a)  1.  The  state  superintendent  having  been  given  authority  to  hear 
and  determine  certain  matters,  his  determination  thereupon  has  the  con- 
clusive quality  of  a  judgment  pronounced  in  a  legally-created  court  of 
limited  jurisdiction  acting  within  the  bounds  of  its  authority.  Thomp- 
son v.  Board  of  Education,  28  Vr.  628. 

2.  There  is  no  distinction  in  point  of  conclusiveness  between  the  deci- 
sions of  special  tribunals  and  the  judgments  of  courts  of  record.     The 
difference  is  solely  in  the  presumption  of  jurisdiction.     Ibid. 

3.  The  court  may,  in  the  exercise  of  its  discretion,  refuse  to  interfere 
by  mandamus  in  a  controversy  cognizable  by  the  special  tribunals  created 
by  the  School  law  of  this  state,  where  an  appeal  to  such  tribunals  has 
not  been  made.    Jefferson  v.  Atlantic  City,  35  Vr.  59. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  11 

any  duty  imposed  upon  such  board,  officer  or  legal  voters 
by  this  act  or  by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education,  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys 
of  such  school  district  shall,  upon  notice  from  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  approved  by  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction,  withhold  all  moneys 
received  by  him  from  the  County  Collector  and  then 
remaining  in  his  hands  to  the  credit  of  such  district, 
until  he  shall  receive  notice  from  said  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  that  said  board,  officer  or  legal  voters 
have  fully  complied  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  and 
with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of 
Education. 

15.  In  case  a  teacher  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  per-  withhold 
form  any  duty  imposed  upon  him  or  her  by  this  act  teacher.1 
or  by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of 
Education,  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion shall  direct  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of 

the  school  district  in  which  such  teacher  shall  be  em- 
ployed, to  withhold  from  such  teacher  all  salary  due  to 
him  or  her  until  he  receives  notice  from  said  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  that  such  teacher  has 
fully  complied  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  the 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Education 
relating  to  his  or  her  duties. 

16.  Whenever  it  shall  be  proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  suspend  school 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  that  any 

member  of  a  board  of  education,  or  any  officer  thereof 
has  been  guilty  of  a  willful  violation  or  neglect  of  duty 
under  this  act  or  under  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  said  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  may,  by  an  order  under  his  hand 
and  seal,  which  order  shall  be  recorded  in  his  office,  and 
a  duplicate  thereof  transmitted  to  said  board  of  educa- 
tion, suspend  such  member  or  officer  from  his  office; 
provided,  that  notice  of  his  proposed  action  shall  be  Proviso, 
served  upon  said  member  or  officer  either  personally  or 
by  letter  directed  to  him  at  his  last  known  post-office 
address,  at  least  two  weeks  prior  to  the  making  of  said 
order;  provided  further,  that  said  State  Superintendent  Proviso, 
of  Public  Instruction  shall  forthwith  report  such  suspen- 


12  SCHOOL'  LAW. 

sion  to  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and  said  board 
shall,  after  due  investigation,  reinstate  or  remove  such 
member  or  officer. 

Apportion  17.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 

moneys.  shall   equitably   apportion   to   the   several   counties   the 

amount  appropriated  for  the  support  of  public  schools 
from  the  State  School  Fund  on  the  basis  of  the  aggregate 
number  of  days  attendance  of  all  pupils  attending  the 
public  schools  during  the  year  preceding  that  for  which 
said  apportionment  shall  be  made,  and  shall  furnish  to 
the  State  Comptroller  and  to  the  several  County  Super- 
intendents of  Schools  and  County  Collectors  an  abstract 
of  such  apportionment,  and  of  the  apportionment  of  the 
moneys  due  to  the  several  counties  from  the  State  school 
tax  and  from  the  reserve  fund,  and  shall  draw  his  orders 
on  the  State  Comptroller  and  in  favor  of  the  County 
Collector  of  each  county  for  the  amount  to  which  such 
county  shall  be  entitled. 
Reports  from  18.  The  superintendent  or  manager  of  each  educa- 

private  schools.  ,   .  .    .  .  ,    ,,  - 

tional  institution  receiving  support  or  aid  from  the  state, 
and  the  president,  manager,  or  principal  of  each  sem- 
inary, academy  or  private  school  shall  report  to  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  annually,  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  August,  such  statistics  relating  to 
such  institution,  seminary,  academy  or  school  as  said 
Statp  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  may  require, 

Proviso.  and  in  the  manner  and  form  prescribed  by  him;  pro- 

vided, that  no  report  concerning  the  expenses  or  finances 
of  such  institution,  seminary,  academy  or  private  school 

Proviso.  shall 'be  required;  and  provided  further,  that  no  report 

of  any  seminary,  academy  or  private  school  shall  be 
published  or  made  public  by  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction. 

Furnish  blanks      19.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 

officers.  shall  prepare  and  cause  to  be  printed  forms  for  making 

all  reports  and  conducting  all  proceedings  under  the 
school  laws  of  this  state.  He  shall  cause  all  school  laws 
to  be  printed  in  pamphlet  form,  and  shall  annex  thereto 
forms  for  making  reports  and  conducting  school  business, 
and  shall  distribute  the  same. 

Annual  report.       20.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 


SCHOOL  LAW.  13 

shall  present  to  the  State  Board  of  Education  annually 
at  its  meeting  in  December,  a  report  of  the  condition  of 
the  public  schools  and  of  all  the  educational  institutions 
receiving  support  or  aid  from  the  state.  Such  report 
shall  contain  full  statistical  tables  of  all  items  connected 
with  the  cause  of  education  that  may  be  of  interest  to 
school  officers  or  the  people  of  the  state,  together  with 
such  suggestions  and  recommendations  for  the  improve- 
ment of  the  schools  and  the  advancement  of  public  in- 
struction as  he  shall  deem  expedient. 

21.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  Take  affidavits, 
and  the  Assistant  State  Superintendent  shall,  without 

charge,  administer  oaths  and  take  affidavits  concerning 
any  matter  relating  to  the  schools. 

22.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  Deliver  prop- 
shall,  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  deliver  to  cessor. 

his  successor  his  official  seal,  together  with  all  the  prop- 
erty, books,  documents,  maps,  records,  reports  and  other 
papers  belonging  to  his  office. 


AETICLE    III. 

COUNTY    SUPERINTENDENTS. 

23.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  appoint  for  Appointment 

•  s^  °f  C0l?nty 

each  county  a  suitable  person  to  be  the  County  Super-  supenntend- 

intendent  of  Schools  of  that  county,  who  shall  hold  office 

for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  date  of  his  appoint-  Term  of  office. 

ment  and  until  his  successor  shall  have  been  appointed 

as  aforesaid,  unless  sooner  removed  for  cause  by  said 

board.     No  person  shall  be  appointed  as  County  Super-  shall  hold  state 

intendent  of  Schools  unless  he  shall  hold  a  state  teacher's 

certificate. 

24.  The  yearly  salary  of  a  County  Superintendent  of  salary. 
Schools  shall  be  a  sum  which  shall  be  equal  to  eight 
dollars  for  each  teacher  employed  in  the  public  schools 

in  his  county  as  ascertained  from  the  last  published 
report  of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion ;  but  such  salary  shall  in  no  case  be  less  than  thirteen 
hundred  dollars  nor  more  than  two  thousand  dollars. 


14 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Expenses. 


Proviso. 


Proviso. 


Powers  of 
county  superin- 
tendents. 

Take  affidavits. 


Issue  orders  for 
school  moneys. 


Supervise 
schools. 


Such  salary  shall  be  paid  in  equal  monthly  installments 
out  of  the  income  of  the  State  School  Fund,  and  the 
State  Comptroller  shall,  on  the  order  of  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction,  draw  his  warrant  for 
such  salary  on  the  Treasurer  of  the  State  School  Fund 
in  favor  of  such  County  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

25.  A  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  receive, 
in  addition  to  his  salary,  the  actual  expenses  incurred 
by  him  in  the  performance  of  his  official  duties,  which 
expenses  shall  be  paid  by  the  collector  of  the  county 
on  the  order  of  the   State   Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction ;  provided,  that  no  such  order  shall  be  drawn 
in  favor  of  any  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  until 
he  shall  have  furnished  to  the  State  Board  of  Education 
an  itemized  statement,  certified  under  oath  or  affirmation, 
of  the  expenses  he  has  incurred,  unless  he  shall  have, 
during  the  period  in  which  such  expenses  have  been 
incurred,  faithfully  performed  all  the  duties  imposed 
upon  him  by  this  act  and  by  the  rules  and  regulations 
of  the  State  Board  of  Education ;   and  provided  further, 
that  in  no  case  shall  the  expenses  aforesaid  exceed  three 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars  annually.     Payment  of  such 
expenses  shall  be  made  quarter-yearly. 

26.  A  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  have 
power : 

I.  To  administer,  without  charge,  oaths  or  affirmations 
to  teachers  and  school  officers; 

II.  To  issue  orders  on  the  County  Collector  in  favor 
of  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  the  several 
school  districts  in  said  county  for  that  portion  of  the 
state  school  tax,  the  state  appropriation,  and  the  interest 
of  the  surplus  revenue  to  which  each  of  said  school  dis- 
tricts shall  be  entitled ; 

III.  To  exercise  general  supervision  over  the  public 
schools  of  the  county  under  his  charge  in  accordance  with 
the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  from  time  to  time 
by  the  State  Board  of  Education;    to  visit  and  examine 
all  the  schools  under  his  care;    to  inquire  into  the  man- 
agement, methods  of  instruction  and  discipline  in  such 
schools ;   to  note  the  condition  of  the  school-houses,  sites, 
buildings  and  appurtenances;   to  examine  the  courses  of 


SCHOOL  LAW.  15 

study,  text-books  and  school  libraries;  to  advise  with 
and  counsel  boards  of  education  in  relation  to  their 
duties,  particularly  in  respect  to  the  construction,  heat- 
ing, ventilating  and  lighting  of  school-houses,  and  to 
recommend  to  boards  of  education  and  teachers  proper 
studies,  methods,  discipline  and  management  for  the 
schools ; 

IV.  To  appoint  members  of  the  board  of  education  Appoint  mem- 

,  .  111  bers  of  boards 

for  a  new  township,  incorporated  town  or  borough  school  of^^ation  in 
district  and  for  any  such  district  which  shall  fail  to  elect 
such  members  at  the  regular  time.    Such  appointees  shall 
serve  only  until  the  next  regular  election  in  the  district 
for  members  of  the  board  of  education. 

27.  Each  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  ren-  Annual  report, 
der  annually,  on  or  before  the  first  of  September,  to  the 

State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  in  the  man- 
ner and  form  prescribed  by  him,  a  report  of  such  matters 
relating  to  the  schools  under  his  supervision  as  shall  be 
required  by  said  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion. 

28.  The  superintendents,  district  clerks  and  the  custo-  Rfp°r,te°f 

-i  /•  i  school  officers. 

dians  01  schools  moneys  of  the  several  school  districts 
shall  annually,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  August, 
report  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  the 
manner  and  form  prescribed  by  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction. 

29.  Whenever  a   superintendent  of  schools  shall  be  citysuperin- 

r  tendents. 

appointed  in  any  city  school  district,  the  supervision  of 
the  schools  of  such  district  shall  devolve  upon  the  super- 
intendent of  schools  thereof  and  not  upon  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools. 


AKTICLE  IV. 

BOARDS    OF   EXAMINERS. 

30.  There  shall  be  a  State  Board  of  Examiners,  con-  state  board  of 
sisting  of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion,  the  Principal  of  the  State  Normal  School  and  one 
person  to  be  appointed  by  the  State  Board  of  Education. 


16 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


County  boards 
of  examiners, 
how  consti- 
tuted. 


Said  last-named  person  shall  hold  office  for  one  year 
from  date  of  his  appointment  as  aforesaid.  The  member 
of  said  State  Board  of  Examiners  appointed  by  the  State 
Board  of  Education  shall  hold  a  first-grade  state  certifi- 
cate, or  shall  be  a  graduate  of  a  college  or  university. 

compensation.  He  shall  receive  for  his  services,  in  addition  to  traveling 
expenses,  such  compensation  as  may  be  fixed  by  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  not.  to  exceed  ten  dollars  for 
each  meeting  of  said  Board  of  Examiners.  Said  board 
shall  hold  examinations  of  teachers,  grant  State  certifi- 
cates and  revoke  the  same  under  yules  and  regulations 
prescribed  by  the  State  Board  of  Education.  A  certificate 
thus  granted  shall  entitle  the  holder,  without  further  ex- 
amination, to  teach  in  any  part  of  the  state  so  long  as  said 
certificate  shall  remain  valid  by  the  terms  thereof. 

31.  There  may  be  in  each  county  a  County  Board  of 
Examiners  consisting  of  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  who  shall  be  its  chairman,  and  a  number  of 
teachers  not  to  exceed  three  to  be  appointed  by  him, 
who  shall  hold  office  for  one  year  from  the  date  of  their 
respective  appointments.  No  person  shall  be  appointed 
as  a  county  examiner  unless  he  or  she  shall  hold  either 
a  state  or  a  first-grade  county  certificate.  The  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  fill  vacancies  that  shall 
occur  from  absence  or  other  cause.  Said  County  Board 
of  Examiners  shall  conduct  examinations  and  grant  cer- 
tificates of  different  grades  at  such  times  and  under  such 
rules  and  regulations  as  the  State  Board  of  Education 
may  prescribe.  It  shall  meet  at  such  places  as  may  be 
designated  by  the  chairman.  Each  member  of  said  Board 
of  Examiners,  except  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  shall  receive  for  his  or  her  services,  in  addition  to 

compensation,  traveling  expenses,  such  compensation  as  may  be  fixed  by 
the  State  Board  of  Education  not  to  exceed  ten  dollars 
for  each  regular  examination,  which  compensation  shall 
be  paid  by  the  County  Collector  on  the  order  of  the 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools ;  provided.,  that  when- 
ever said  board  shall  hold  a  special  examination  no  com- 
pensation therefor  shall  be  paid  by  the  County  Collector, 
but  in  such  case  said  board  may  charge  each  applicant- 
for  examination  a  fee  not  to- exceed  two  dollars. 


Meetings. 


Proviso, 


SCHOOL  LAW.  17 

32.  In  each  city  school  district  there  may  be  a  Board  of  city  boards  of. 
Examiners  consisting  of  the  Superintendent  of  Schools 

of  such  district,  if  there  be  one,  and  such  persons  as 
the  board  of  education  of  the  school  district  shall  ap- 
point. No  person  shall  be  appointed  as  such  examiner 
unless  he  or  she  shall  hold  either  a  state  certificate  or 
the  highest  grade  certificate  issued  in  said  district,  or 
shall  be  a  graduate  of  a  college  or  university.  Said 
Board  of  Examiners  shall,  under  such  rules  and  regula- 
tions as  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall  prescribe, 
grant  certificates  which  shall  be  valid  for  all  schools  of 
such  school  district.  No  teacher  shall  be  employed  in 
any  of  the  schools  of  such  district  unless  he  or  she  shall 
possess  such  certificate  or  a  state  or  county  certificate; 
provided,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  con-  Proviso, 
strued  to  prevent  the  Board  of  Education  of  such  school 
district  from  prescribing  and  requiring  other  and  further 
qualifications  to  teach  than  shall  have  been  prescribed  by 
the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion as  aforesaid;  provided  further,  that  if  any  such  Proviso, 
school  district  shall  maintain  a  Normal  School  or  a  train- 
ing school  for  teachers,  which  school  shall  have  been 
approved  as  to  its  course  of  study  by  the  State  Board 
of  Education,  then  the  diplomas  or  certificates  issued  to 
pupils  of  any  such  school  upon  graduation  therefrom 
may  be  accepted  by  the  board  of  education  of  said  school 
district  as  certificates  to  teach  valid  for  the  schools  of 
such  school  district. 

AKTICLE  V. 

SCHOOL   DISTRICTS. 

33.  Each  township,  city  and  incorporated  town  shall  school  districts, 

i  i        i   j  •        •  i     •  i      -ii  howconsti- 

be  a  separate  school  district,  but  each  incorporated  village  tuted. 
and  each  borough  hereafter  created,  shall  remain  and 
be  a  part  of  the  school  district  in  which  said  incorpo- 
rated village  or  borough  shall  be  situate  at  the  time  of 
its  incorporation;  and  each  borough  heretofore  incorpo- 
rated which  shall  not  have  assumed  the  functions  of  a 
separate  school  district  by  the  election  of  a  board  of 

2 


18 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Proviso. 


1-ronso. 


New  districts. 


education,  or  which  shall  not  have  actually  acted  as  a 
separate  school  district,  shall  be  and  remain,  and  shall 
be  deemed  to  have  been  and  remained,  a  part  of  the 
school  district  in  which  it  was  situate  at  the  time  of 
its  incorporation  as  a  borough,  any  law  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding;  provided,  that  whenever  it  shall  ap- 
pear to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
that  the  best  interest  of  any  borough  require  that  it  be 
ft  separate  school  district  he  shall  make  an  order  creating 
such  borough  a  separate  school  district.  Such  order  shall 
not  take  effect  until  approved  by  the  State  Board  of 
Education ;  provided  further,  that  nothing  in  this  section 
shall  be  construed  as  abolishing  any  school  district  which 
shall  have  assumed  the  functions  of  and  acted  as  a 
separate  school  district  by  the  election  of  a  board  of  edu- 
cation prior  to  the  introduction  of  this  act,  or  changing 
the  boundaries  of  any  school  district  possessing  complete 
official  autonomy  prior  to  the  introduction  of  this  act, 
but  such  district  shall  be  and  remain  a  separate  school 
district  until  consolidated  with  an  adjoining  school  dis- 
trict as  hereinafter  provided. 

34.  Whenever  a  new  school  district  shall  be  created  the 
children  residing  in  said  new  district  shall  continue  to 
attend  the  schools  in  which  they  shall  be  enrolled  until 
the  end  of  the  then  current  school  year.  In  case  there 
shall  be  a  school-house  in  such  new  district  in  which 
school  shall  be  then  maintained  the  board  of  education 
of  the  school  district  from  which  such  new  district  shall 
have  been  set  off  shall  have  charge  and  control  of  such 
school  until  the  end  of  the  then  current  school  year,  and 
shall  pay  the  salaries  of  the  teachers,  janitors  and  other 
persons  employed  in  such  school  until  the  end  of  said 
year.  In  case  there  shall  be  any  balance  at  the  end  of 
said  school  year  in  the  hands  of  the  custodian  of  the 
school  moneys  of  the  school  district  to  the  credit  of  the 
school  district  from  which  said  new  district  shall  have 
been  set  off,  said  custodian  shall  certify  to  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  the  amount  of  such  balance, 
and  what  portion  of  such  balance  was  received  from  state 
appropriation,  state  school  tax  and  interest  of  the  surplus 
revenue,  and  what  portion  was  received  from  district 


SCHOOL  LAW.  19 


school   tax.      Said   County   Superintendent   of   Schools, 

upon  receipt  of  such  notice,  shall  divide  between  said  how  divided. 

districts    that    portion    of    the    balance    arising    from 

the  state   appropriation,   state   school  tax   and   interest 

of  the  surplus  revenue  on  the  basis  of  the   aggregate 

number   of   days    attendance   of   pupils   in   the   public 

schools   as   ascertained  from  the   last  published   report 

of    the    State    Superintendent    of  Public    Instruction, 

and  shall  divide  between  said  districts  that  portion  of 

•said  balance  arising  from  district  school  tax  on  the  basis 

of  the  respective  ratables  of  said  districts,  and  shall  issue 

an  order  in  favor  of  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys 

of  such  new  district  for  that  portion  of  said  balance 

found  to  be  due  said  district  from  the  district  from  which 

it  shall  have  been  set  off. 

35.  Whenever  a  township,  incorporated  town  or  bor- 
•ough  school  district  shall  desire  to  consolidate  with  an  tncts. 
adjoining  township,  incorporated  town  or  borough  school 
district,  the  board  of  education  of  said  district  shall  peti- 
tion the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  of  the  county 
in  which  said  district  shall  be  situate,  to  appoint  a  time 
when  meetings  of  the  legal  voters  of  the  districts  pro- 
posed to  be  consolidated  shall  be  held,  and  said  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  shall,  upon  receiving  said 
petition,  appoint  a  day  for  said  meetings,  and  shall  notify 
the  board  of  education  of  each  of  said  districts  of  his 
action.  Each  board  of  education  receiving  such  notifica-  Public  meet- 
tion  shall  cause  its  district  clerk  to  post  notices  calling 
a  special  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  the  district  for 
the  purpose  of  voting  on  the  question  of  the  consolidation 
of  said  districts.  Said  meeting  shall  be  called  in  the 
same  manner  as  other  special  meetings,  and  shall  be  held 
on  the  day  designated  therefor  by  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools,  at  such  hour  and  place  as  may  be 
•determined  by  the  board  of  education.  The  election  shall  Election. 
be  by  ballot,  and  the  chairman  shall  appoint  two  tellers 
who  shall  receive  and  count  the  ballots  in  the  presence  of 
the  chairman  of  the  meeting.  The  secretary  of  the  meet- 
ing shall  keep  a  poll  list  and  shall  record  therein  the 
name  of  each  person  voting  at  such  meeting,  and  shall 
also  keep  a  tally  sheet  of  the  votes  as  counted  by  the 


20  SCHOOL  LAW. 

tellers.  The  tally  sheet  shall  be  signed  by  the  chairman 
and  tellers,  and  said  tally  sheet,  poll  list  and  ballots  shall. 
be  placed  in  a  sealed  package  by  the  secretary,  indorsed' 
with  the  name  of  the  district,  the  name  of  the  county  in 
which  said  district  shall  be  situate,  and  the  date  on 
which  said  election  shall  have  been  held,  and  said  pack- 
age, together  with  a  statement  of  the  result  of  said  elec- 
tion, signed  by  the  chairman  and  secretary,  shall  be 
within  five  days  after  the  date  of  said  election  for- 
warded by  said  secretary  to  the  County  Superintendent 
of  Schools,  and  the  same  shall  be  preserved  by  him  for 
one  year.  If  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall 
ascertain  from  said  statements  that  the  number  of  votes 
cast  in  each  of  said  districts  in  favor  of  consolidation 
exceeds  the  number  of  votes  cast  against  the  same,  he- 
shall  immediately  notify  each  of  the  boards  of  education 
of  the  result  of  said  election,  and  thereafter  said  districts- 
shall  constitute  but  one  district. 
«o£rfn°con-uca"  36.  The  board  of  education  of  each  district  consoli- 


tSc?ated  dis  c^ed  in  the  manner  provided  in  the  preceding  section 
shall,  upon  receipt  of  the  notice  from  the  County  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  of  such  consolidation,  select  by  lot 
four  of  its  number  to  serve  as  members  of  the  board  of 
education  of  the  consolidated  district,  and  the  eight  mem- 
bers so  selected  shall  select  the  ninth  member  of  said 
board  from  among  the  remaining  members  of  the  board 
cf  education  of  that  district  which  shall  employ  the- 

Proviso.  greater  number  of  teachers;  provided,  that  if  the  board 

of  education  of  one  of  the  districts  so  consolidated  shall 
consist  of  but  three  members,  all  of  said  members  shall 
be  members  of  the  board  of  education  of  the  consolidated 
district,  and  four  members  of  said  board  shall  be  chosen 
as  hereinabove  provided  from  the  board  of  education  of 

Proviso,  the  other  district  so  consolidated  ;  and  provided  further, 

that  if  each  of  said  boards  of  education  shall  consist  of 
three  members  only,  said  boards  shall  constitute  the  board 
of  education  of  the  consolidated  district,  and  the  board 
constituted  as  hereinbefore  provided  shall  serve  until  the 
next  annual  meeting  for  the  election  of  members  of  boards 
of  education,  and  the  terms  of  office  of  the  remaining- 
members  of  the  board  of  education  of  each  of  said  dis- 


SCHOOL  LAW.  21 

tricts  so  consolidated  shall  thereupon  cease  and  deter- 
mine. At  said  annual  meeting  a  board  of  education 
shall  be  elected  as  provided  for  the  election  of  members 
of  boards  of  education  in  new  districts. 

37.  The  board  of  education  of  such  consolidated  dis- 
trict  shall  be  a  body  corporate  and  shall  have  all  the  corporate. 
powers  and  duties  and  be  subject  to  the  same  restrictions 
as  a  board  of  education  in  a  township  school  district, 
.and  shall  be  known  as  and  called  "the  board  of  education 
of  the  -  of  -  (here  insert  the  name 
of  the  municipality  in  which  was  situate  that  district 
consolidated  as  aforesaid  which  had  the  larger  amount 
of  taxable  property  as  ascertained  from  the  last  pub- 
lished report  of  the  State  Comptroller),  in  the  county 
of  -  ." 


38.  In  case  any  township,  city,  incorporated  town  or 
borough  shall  hereafter  become  a  separate  school  district,  dated  district 
-or  in  case  two  school  districts  shall  consolidate  as  here- 
inbefore provided  and  form  one  school  district,  the  board 
of  education  of  such  district,  in  its  corporate  capacity, 
shall  become  vested  with  the  title  to  all  school  property 
real  and  personal  in  such  district,  and  if,  for  the  erec- 
tion, repair  or  purchase  of  any  such  property,  there  shall 
be  an  indebtedness  for  which  the  board  of  education  of 
?the  school  district  to  which  said  property  originally  be- 
longed shall  be  liable,  the  said  indebtedness  shall  be 
assumed  by  and  become  the  obligation  of  the  board  of 
education  of  the  school  district  which  shall  have  become 
vested  with  the  title  to  such  property,  and  upon  pay- 
ment of  said  indebtedness  by  the  school  district  originally 
liable  therefor,  an  action  may  be  maintained  therefor  by 
.the  board  of  education  so  paying  the  said  indebtedness 
against  the  board  of  education  of  the  school  district  which 
shall  have  become  vested  with  the  property  for  which  the 
•said  indebtedness  was  originally  incurred,  (a) 

(a)  When  a  new  borough  is  formed  and  set  off  from  a  township,  and 
becomes  a  separate  school  district,  and  there  is  within  the  limits  of  the 
borough  a  school-house  belonging  to  the  board  of  education  of  the  town- 
ship, and  for  the  erection  of  which  there  is  an  indebtedness  for  which 
said  board  is  liable,  the  said  board  is  not  thereby  discharged  from  Its 
legal  liability  to  pay  such  indebtedness,  but  on  being  compelled  by  suit 
and  judgment  at  law  to  pay  the  same,  is  entitled  to  collect  the  sum  so 
paid  from  the  board  of  education  of  the  borough.  McCully  v.  Ridge- 
(field,  34  Vr.  18. 


22 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Assumption  of 
ndebtedness. 


Repayment  of 

indebtedness. 


Length  of 
school  term. 


Proviso. 


Proviso. 


39.  In  case  any  borough,  township,  incorporated  tow» 
or  other  municipality  or  any  part  thereof  shall  have 
been  annexed  to  another  municipality  and  there  shall  be- 
within  the  limits  of  such  borough,  township,  incorpo- 
rated town  or  other  municipality,  or  such  part  thereof 
as  shall  have  been  annexed  to  another  municipality  as- 
aforesaid,  any  school-house  or  property  formerly  belong- 
ing to  the  board  of  education  of  such  borough,  township,, 
incorporated  town  or  other  municipality,   and  for  the 
erection,  purchase,  furnishing  or  repair  of  which  there 
shall  be  an  indebtedness  for  which  the  board  of  education 
of  such  borough,  township,  incorporated  town  or  other 
municipality  shall  be  liable,  the  said  indebtedness  shall1 
be  assumed  by  and  become  the  obligation  of  the  board 
of  education  of  the  municipality  to  which  such  borough,. 
tOAvnship,  incorporated  town  or  other  municipality  shall 
have  been  annexed. 

40.  Whenever  the  board  of  education  of  any  township, 
incorporated  town,  borough  or  other  municipality  shall 
pay  any  portion  of  an  indebtedness  existing  at  the  time 
of  the  formation  of  a  new  township,  incorporated  town,, 
borough  or  other  municipality,  or  at  the  time  of  the 
annexation  of  such  township,  incorporated  town,  borough 
or  other  municipality,  or  part  thereof,  to  another  munici- 
pality as  aforesaid,  which  indebtedness  shall  have  been 
assumed  by  and  shall  have  become  the  obligation  of  the 
board  of  education  of  such  new  township,  incorporated 
town,  borough  or  other  municipality,  said  last-mentioned 
board  shall  repay  to  the  board  of  education  of  said  first- 
mentioned  township,  incorporated  town,  borough  or  other- 
municipality  the  amount  of  said  payment,  with  interest. 

41.  The  state  appropriation  and  the  state  school  tax 
shall  not  be  apportioned  in  any  year  to  any  district  which 
shall  not  have  maintained  a  public  school  for  at  least 
nine  months  during  the  preceding  school  year ;   provided, 
that  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  may, 
for  good  cause  shown,  remit  said  penalty ;    and  provided 
further,  that  said  appropriation  and  said  state  school 
tax  shall  be  apportioned  to  a  new  district,  or  to  a  dis- 
trict in  which  the  school  shall  have  been  discontinued 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

on  account  of  the  repairing  of  an  old,  or  the  erection  of 
a  new  school  building. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

BOARDS    OF    EDUCATION    IN    CITY    SCHOOL    DISTRICTS- 

42.  In  each  city,  the  mayor  or  other  chief  executive 

officer  of  such  city  shall,  during  the  month  of  December,  by  •the'mayor. 
next  after  the  acceptance  of  the  provisions  of  this  section, 
as  is  hereinafter  provided,  appoint  nine  persons  to  be 
members  of  the  board  of  education  of  such  city  school 
district,  who  shall  severally  possess  the  qualifications  for 
said  membership  prescribed  in  this  article.  Three  of  Term, 
such  persons  shall  be  appointed  to  serve  for  one  year, 
three  for  two  years  and  three  for  three  years,  and  an- 
nually thereafter,  during  the  month  of  December,  the 
said  mayor  or  other  chief  executive  officer  of  such  city 
shall  appoint  three  members  of  said  board  of  education 
to  serve  for  the  term  of  three  years,  to  take  the  place  of 
those  members  whose  terms  shall  expire  in  such  year. 
Any  vacancy  in  such  board  of  education  shall  be  forth-  JJ°5ncy» how" 
with  reported  by  the  secretary  of  said  board  to  the 
mayor  or  other  chief  executive  officer,  who  shall,  within 
thirty  days  thereafter,  appoint  a  person  to  fill  such 
vacancy  for  the  unexpired  term.  To  every  such  ap- 
pointee, as  aforesaid,  said  mayor  or  other  chief  executive 
officer  shall  issue  and  deliver  a  certificate  of  appoint- 
ment. The  term  of  office  of  a  member  of  the  board  of 
education,  except  a  member  appointed  to  fill  an  unexpired 
term,  shall  begin  on  the  first  day  of  January  next  suc- 
ceeding his  appointment. 

43.  In  each  city,  there  shall  be  elected  at  the  first  Board  of  edu«» 

J>  .  tkm  elected. 

municipal  election  held  in  such  city  next  after  the  ac- 
ceptance of  this  section  as  hereinafter  provided,  nine 
persons  to  be  members  of  the  board  of  education  of  such 
city  school  district,  who  shall  severally  possess  the  quali- 
fications for  said  membership  prescribed  in  this  article. 
Three  of  such  persons  shall  be  elected  to  serve  for  one  Term, 
year,  three  for  two  years  and  three  for  three  years,  and 
thereafter,  at  the  regular  municipal  election  in  such 


24 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Vacancy. 


Qualification 
for  member- 
ship. 


Take  oath  of 
office. 


Removal  for 
non-attend- 
ance: at  meet- 
ings. 


NocomperM 
tion. 


Board  of  educa- 
tion incor- 
porated. 


city  in  each  year,  there  shall  be  elected  three  members 
of  said  board  of  education  to  serve  for  the  term  of  three 
years,  to  take  the  place  of  those  members  whose  terms 
shall  expire  in  such  year.  Should  any  vacancy  occur  in 
such 'board  of  education,  the  remaining  members  of  said 
board  shall,  within  thirty  days  thereafter,  appoint  a 
person  to  fill  such  vacancy  to  serve  only  until  the  next 
succeeding  municipal  election  in  said  city,  at  which  elec- 
tion a  member  shall  be  elected  to  serve  for  the  unex- 
pired  term.  The  term  of  office  of  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education,  except  a  member  elected  to  fill  an 
nnexpired  term,  shall  begin  on  the  first  day  of  January 
next  succeeding  his  election. 

44.  A  member  of  a  board  of  education  created  under 
the  provisions  of  this  article  shall  be  at  least  twenty-five 
years  of  age,  a  citizen  and  resident  of  the  school  district, 
and  shall  have  been  such  citizen  and  resident  for  at  least 
three  years  immediately  preceding  his  or  her  becoming 
a  member  of  such  board  and  shall  be  able  to  read  and 
write.     He  shall  not  be  interested  directly  or  indirectly 
in  any  contract  with  or  claim  against  said  board. 

45.  A  member  of  such  board  of  education  shall,  before 
entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  take  and  subscribe 
an  oath  before  any  officer  authorized  by  law  to  admin- 
ister oaths,  that  he  possesses  the  qualifications  to  be  a 
member  of  said  board  prescribed  therefor  by  this  article, 
and  that  he  will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  his 
said  office.     Said  oath  shall  be  filed  with  the  city  clerk  of 
the  city. 

46.  A  member  of  such  board  of  education  who  shall 
fail  to  attend  three  consecutive  regular  meetings  of  said 
board  without  good  cause,  may  be  removed  by  said  board ; 
the  vacancy  thus  created  shall  be  filled  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  other  vacancies  in  the  board  of  education  shall 
be  filled. 

47.  A  member  of  such  board  of  education  shall  receive 
no  compensation  for  his  services. 

48.  A  board  of  education  created  under  the  provisions 
of  this  article  shall  be  a  body  corporate,  and  shall  be 
known  as  and  called  "the  board  of  education  of  the  city 


SCHOOL  LAW.  25 

of  -       in  the  county  of  -  — ,"  and  shall  adopt 

an  official  seal. 

49.  Such  board  shall,  on  the  day  the  term  of  office  of  organization  of 

\  .  .  ,     ,     .      board  of  edu- 

the  members  first  appointed  or  elected  as  provided  in  cation, 
section  forty-two  or  forty-three,  shall  begin,  and  an- 
nually thereafter  at  the  first  regular  meeting  of  said 
board  on  or  after  the  first  day  of  January,  organize  by 
-electing  one  of  its  members  as  president  and  another  as 
vice-president,  which  officers  shall  serve  for  one  year  and 
•until  their  respective  successors  shall  be  elected. 

50.  Such  board  shall,  in  and  by  its  corporate  name,  May  sue,  etc. 
sue  and  be  sued,  purchase,  lease,  receive,  hold  and  sell 
property,  real  and  personal,  take  and  condemn  land  and 

other  property  for  school  purposes  in  the  manner  pro-  P°ses- 
vided  by  law  regulating  the  ascertainment  and  payment 
of  compensation  for  property  condemned  or  taken  for 
public  use,  and,  if  either  party  shall  feel  aggrieved  by 
any  proceedings  and  award  thereunder,  said  party  may 
appeal  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  appeals  from 
such  proceedings  and  award,  and  shall  do  all  acts  and 
things  necessary  for  the  lawful  and  proper  conduct  and 
maintenance  of  the  public  schools  of  its  school  district. 

51.  Such  board  shall  succeed  to  and  be  vested  with  all  vested  rights, 
the  property  of  every  kind,  and  all  the  rights  and  privi- 
leges, not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
theretofore  vested  in  or  possessed  by  any  board  of  educa- 
tion,  school  commissioners,   or  other   body   theretofore 

having  charge  and  control  of  the  public  schools  or  public 
school  property  of  the  school  district  or  of  the  city  in 
which  said  district  shall  be  situate. 

52.  The  title  to  school  property,  real  and  personal,  pre-  Title  to  school 
viously  acquired  by  said  school  district,  or  by  any  ante-  STSSSof8* 

J/VJ.CJ  •  '  .      .  "          ,       education. 

•cedent  board  01  education,  school  commissioners,  or  by 
any  other  body  for  school  purposes  in  said  school  district, 
•or  in  the  city  in  which  the  said  district  shall  be  situate, 
and  the  title  to  all  lands,  buildings  and  other  property 
to  be  hereafter  acquired  for  school  purposes  in  said 
school  district  shall  vest  in  the  board  of  education  in 
said  district  created  under  the  provisions  of  this  article. 

53.  Every  such  board  shall  have  the  supervision,  con-  Management  of 
trol  and  management  of  the  public  schools  and  public 


26 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Appoint  secre- 
tary, superin- 
tendent, etc, 


Make  rules  and 
regulations. 


Proposals  for 

sxipplies. 


Proviso. 


Specifications 
and  contracts. 


Annual  report. 


school  property  in  its  district.  It  shall  appoint  a  person 
to  be  its  secretary,  and  may  appoint  a  superintendent 
of  schools,  a  business  manager  and  other  officers,  agents 
and  employes  as  may  be  needed,  and  may  fix  their 
compensation  and  terms  of  employment,  but  no  such 
appointee,  officer,  agent  or  employe,  other  than  the  secre- 
tary, shall  be  a  member  of  said  board. 

54.  Such  board  shall  make,  amend  and  repeal  rulesr 
regulations  and  by-laws  not  inconsistent  with  this  act 
or  with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board 
of  Education,  for  its  own  government,  for  the  transac- 
tion of  business,  and  for  the  government  and  manage- 
ment of  the  public  schools  and  the  public  school  property 
in  said  district,  and  also  for  the  employment  and  dis- 
charge of  principals  and  teachers. 

55.  Such  board  of  education  shall,  prior  to  the  be- 
ginning of  each  school  year,  cause  advertisement  to  be 
made  under  such  regulations  as  it  may  provide,  for  pro- 
posals for  furnishing  supplies  required  in   the  schools- 
and  by  said  board  during  the  ensuing  year.     If  other 
and  further  supplies  shall  be  required  during  the  year,, 
they  shall  be  purchased  in  like  manner.     Xo  contract 
shall  be  entered  into  for  the  building  of  a  new  school- 
house  or  for  the  enlarging  or  repairing  of  a  school-house- 
already  erected,  except  after  advertisement  made  under 
such  regulations  as  said  board  may  prescribe ;    provided* 
that  the  board  may  at  any  time  order  repairs  to  school 
buildings  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dol- 
lars, and  may  authorize  the  purchase  of  supplies  to  an 
amount   not   exceeding   two   hundred   and   fifty   dollars 
without    advertisement.      Text-books    and    kindergarten 
supplies  may  be  purchased  without  advertisement. 

56.  Xo  bid  for  building  or  repairing  school-houses  or 
for  supplies  shall  be  accepted  which  does  not  conform 
to  the  specifications  furnished  therefor,  and  all  contracts 
shall  be  awarded  to  the  lowest  responsible  bidder. 

57.  Such  board  of  education  shall,  as  soon  as  prac- 
ticable after  the  close  of  each  school  year,  cause  to  be 
printed  and  published  a  report  of  the  condition  of  the 
public  schools  under  its  charge,  of  all  the  property  under 


SCHOOL  LAW.  27 

its  control,  and  an  itemized  account  of  the  expenditures 
of  the  board  and  of  the  finances  of  the  district 

A  secretary  shall  be  appointed  by  the  majority  secretary, 
vote  of  all  the  members  of  the  board  of  education;  he 
shall  be  paid  such  salary  as  said  board  shall  determine, 
and  mav  be  removed  by  a  majority  vote  of  all  the 
members  of  said  board.  He  shall,  before  entering  upon 
the  duties  of  his  office,  execute  and  deliver  to  said  board 
a  bond  in  a  sum  to  be  fixed  by  said  board,  but  not  less  Bond, 
than  two  thousand  dollars,  with  surety  or  sureties  to  be 
approved  by  said  board  conditioned  for  the  faithful 
performance  of  the  duties  of  his  office.  Said  board  may 
accept  the  bond  or  undertaking  of  a  trust  company  or 
surety  or  indemnity  company,  and  may  pay  the  annual 
premium  or  fee  therefor  as  a  current  expense  of  said 
board. 

59.  The  secretary  may  appoint  and  remove  clerks  in  Powers  of  sec- 
his  office,  but  the  number  and  salaries  of  such  clerks 

shall  be  determined  by  the  board  of  education. 

60.  The  secretary  shall  record  the  proceedings  of  the  g*J<*  of  secre- 
board  and  of  its  committees,  and  shall  be  the  custodian 

of  all  securities,  documents,  title  papers,  books  of  record 
and  other  papers  belonging  to  the  board  under  such  con- 
ditions as  said  board  shall  direct. 

61.  The  secretary  shall  collect  tuition  fees  and  other 
moneys  due  to  the  board  of  education,  except  moneys 
apportioned  by  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 
or  appropriated  by  the  city,  and  shall  deposit  with  the 
custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  the  district  all  moneys 
collected  by  him,  and  shall  render  monthly  to  the  board 
of  education  a  report  of  the  receipts  during  the  pre- 
ceding month. 

62.  The  secretary  shall  be  the  general  accountant  of 
the  board  of  education  and  shall  preserve  in  his  office 
all  accounts,  vouchers  and  contracts  relating  to  the  pub- 
lic schools.     He  shall  examine  and  audit  all  accounts 
and  demands  against  said  board.     Such  accounts  and 
demands  exceeding  in  amount  the  sum  of  five  dollars, 
except  for  salaries,  shall  be  verified  by  affidavit. 

63.  Xo  claim  or  demand  shall  be  audited  or  paid  claims,  how- 

paid. 
unless  it  shall  be  authorized  by  law  and  the  rules  of  the 


28  SCHOOL  LAW. 

board  of  education  and  be  fully  itemized,  nor  unless 
the  amount  required  to  pay  the  same  shall  have  been 
theretofore  appropriated  by  said  board. 
Disbursements,       (54.  All  disbursements  of  the  board  of  education  shall 

glow  made. 

be  by  warrant  drawn  on  the  custodian  of  the  school 
moneys  of  the  district,  signed  by  the  president  of  said 
board  and  countersigned  by  the  secretary.  All  warrants 
drawn  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  section, 
accompanied  by  itemized  statements  of  the  claims  or 
demands  that  have  been  drawn,  shall  be  forwarded,  by 
said  secretary,  to  the  comptroller,  auditor  or  other  officer, 
if  there  be  one,  authorized  by  law  to  audit  claims  and 
demands  against  the  municipality  in  which  such  district 
shall  be  situate.  Said  comptroller,  auditor  or  other 
officer  shall  examine  and  audit  such  warrants  and  state- 
ments, and,  if  they  shall  be  found  to  be  correct,  counter- 
sign said  warrants  and  forward  them  to  the  city  treasurer, 
who,  by  virtue  of  his  office  as  city  treasurer,  shall  be 
the  custodian  of  school  moneys  for  said  city.  If  said 
comptroller,  auditor  or  other  officer  or  body  shall  have 
reason  to  believe  that  the  claim  or  demand  for  which 
any  such  warrant  shall  have  been  issued  is  incorrect, 
such  warrant,  and  the  statement  accompanying  it,  shall 
be  returned  to  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  education, 
with  a  statement  of  the  reasons  why  the  same  should 
not  be  paid,  and  said  secretary  shall  correct  such  warrant 
and  statement,  or  present  them  to  the  board  of  education 
at  its  next  meeting.  If  said  board  shall  find  that  such 
claim  or  demand  is  correct  and  just  it  shall,  by  a  vote 
of  a  majority  of  all  the  members  of  said  board,  order 
that  it  be  paid,  and  said  comptroller,  auditor  or  other 
officer  or  body  shall,  upon  receipt  of  the  warrant  and 
statement  thereof,  countersign  the  warrant  and  forward 
it  to  said  city  treasurer. 

Monthly  state-        05.  The  secretary  shall  report  monthly  to  the  board 
*ai7-    '  of  education  the  amount  for  which  warrants  shall  have 

been  drawn  during  the  preceding  month,  the  accounts 
against  which  said  warrants  shall  have  been  drawn  and 
the  balance  to  the  credit  of  each  account,  and  shall,  at 
the  close  of  the  fiscal  year,  make  a  full  itemized  report 
of  the  finances  of  the  school  district. 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

66.  Whenever   a   superintendent  of  schools   shall  be 
appointed,  it  shall  be  by  a  majority  vote  of  all  of  the 
members  of  the  board  of  education.     He  shall  receive  salary, 
such  salary  as  said  board  shall  determine,  which  salary 
shall  not  be  reduced  during  his  employment.     He  may 

be  removed  by  a  majority  vote  of  all  the  members  of  said 
board.  He  shall  have  a  seat  in  said  board  and  the  right 
to  speak  on  all  educational  matters,  but  shall  not  have 
the  right  to  vote. 

67.  The  board  of  education  may,  on  the  nomination 

of  the  superintendent  of  schools,  appoint  assistant  super-  ents. 
intendents  and  shall  fix  their  salaries.  Assistant  super- 
intendents may  be  removed  by  a  majority  vote  of  all 
the  members  of  said  board. 

68.  No  person  shall  be  appointed  superintendent  of  Qualification* 

T  ,          ,  .   .  of  superin- 

schools,  or  assistant  superintendent  under  the  provisions  tendents. 
of  this   article   unless   he   shall  hold   a   state   teacher's 
certificate;    provided,  that  this  section  shall  not  apply  Proviso, 
to  a  superintendent  of  schools   employed  in   any  city 
school  district  at  the  time  of  the  passage  of  this  act. 

69.  The  superintendent  of  schools  shall,  when  required  Duties  of  super- 

7  ^ .  intendents. 

by  the  board  of  education,  devote  himself  exclusively 
to  the  duties  of  his  office.  He  shall  have  general  super- 
vision over  the  schools  of  the  district  and  shall  examine 
into  their  condition  and  progress  and  report  thereon 
from  time  to  time  as  directed  by  the  board  of  education. 
He  shall  have  such  other  powers  and  perform  such  other 
duties  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  board  of  education, 
He  may  appoint  and  remove  clerks  in  his  office,  but  the 
number  and  salaries  of  such  clerks  shall  be  determined 
by  the  board  of  education.  Said  superintendent  shall 
render  annually  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  August  to  ent- 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  and  in 
the  manner  and  form  prescribed  by  him,  a  report  of 
such  matters  relating  to  the  schools  under  his  supervision 
as  shall  be  required  by  said  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction. 

70.  The  appointment,  promotion,  removal  and  transfer  Appointment 

..  ,   of  teachers 

of  teachers,  the  adoption  and  change  of  text-books  and  and  selection 

„,,,,-,  ,  '  .  „  of  text-books. 

courses  of  study  shall  be  made  by  a  majority  vote  of 
all  the  members  of  the  board  of  education. 


30 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Suspension  of 
teacher. 


Proviso. 


Business 
manager. 

Salary. 
Bond. 


Duties  of  busi- 
ness manager. 


Plans  of  school 
houses  to  be 
supervised  by 
business  man- 
ager. 


Proviso. 


71.  The  superintendent  of  schools  may,  with  the  ap- 
proval of  the  president  of  the  board  of  education,  suspend 
any  assistant  superintendent,  principal  or  teacher,  and 
shall  forthwith  report  such  suspension  to  the  board  of 
education,  which  board  shall  take  such  action  for  the 
restoration  or  removal  of  such  assistant  superintendent, 
principal  or  teacher  as  it  shall  deem  proper;    provided; 
that  such  action  shall  be  by  a  majority  vote  of  all  the 
members  of  said  board. 

72.  Whenever  a  business  manager  shall  be  appointed 
it  shall  be  by  a  majority  vote  of  all  the  members  of 
the  board  of  education.     He  shall  receive  such  salary  as 
said  board  shall  determine.     He  shall,  before  entering 
upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  execute  and  deliver  to  the 
board  of  education  a  bond  in  a  sum  to  be  fixed  by  said 
board,  but  not  less  than  two  thousand  dollars,  with  surety 
or  sureties  to  be  approved  by  said  board,  conditioned 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  his  office. 
Said  board  may  accept  the  bond  or  undertaking  of  a  trust 
company,  surety  or  indemnity  company  and  may  pay  the 
annual  premium  or  fee  therefor  as  a  current  expense  of 
said  board.     Said  business  manager  may,  by  a  majority 
vote  of  all  the  members  of  the  board  of  education,  be 
removed  from  office.    He  shall  have  a  seat  in  said  board, 
and  the  right  to  speak  on  all  matters  relating  to  his  de- 
partment, but  shall  not  have  the  right  to  vote. 

73.  The  business  manager  shall  have  charge  and  care 
of  the  public  school  buildings,  and  all  other  property 
belonging  to  the  school  district.     He  may  appoint  and 
remove  clerks  in  his  office,  but  the  number  and  salaries 
of  such  clerks   shall  be   determined  by   the  board   of 
education. 

74.  All  plans  and  specifications  for  the  erection,  im- 
provement or   repair   of  public   school-houses   shall   be 
drawn  by  or  under  the  supervision  of  the  business  man- 
ager, if  there  be  one,  and  shall  be  approved  by  the  board 
of  education.     Said  business  manager,  if  there  be  one, 
shall  supervise  the  construction  and  repair  of  all  school- 
buildings,    and   shall  report  monthly  to   the  board   of 
education  the  progress  of  the  work;    provided,  that  re- 
pairs not  exceeding  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  may 


SCHOOL  LAW.  31 

loe  ordered  by  the  business  manager,  and  repairs  not 
•exceeding  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars  may  be  ordered 
"by  the  committee  of  the  board  having  charge  of  the  repair 
of  school  property,  without  the  previous  order  of  the 
board  and  without  advertisement.  The  business  manager, 
if  there  be  one,  shall  superintend  all  advertisements  for 
bids  and  the  letting  of  all  contracts.  He  shall  inspect 
all  work  done  and  materials  or  supplies  furnished  under 
-contract,  and  shall,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  board 
of  education,  condemn  any  work  and  reject  any  material 
or  supplies  which,  in  his  judgment,  dp  not  conform  to 
the  specifications  contained  in  the  contract  therefor,  and 
shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  required  by 
the  board  of  education. 

75.  In  every  school  district  the  board  of  education  Board  of  school 

*  estimate,  how 

shall  appoint  two  of  its  members,  and  the  common  constituted. 
council,  board  of  finance  or  other  body  in  such  city 
having  the  power  to  make  appropriations  of  money  raised 
by  taxes  in  said  city,  shall  appoint  two  of  its  members, 
which  persons  so  appointed,  together  with  the  mayor  or 
other  chief  executive  officer  of  the  city,  shall  constitute 
a  board  to  be  known  as  the  "Board  of  School  Estimate" 
of  said  school  district.  Said  appointments  shall  be  made 
annually  during  the  month  of  January.  The  secretary  secretary  of 

.   J  *    i       board  of  school 

of  the  board  of  education  shall  be  the  secretary  of  the  estimate. 
board  of  school  estimate,  but  shall  receive  no  compensa- 
tion as  such. 

76.  On  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  May  in  each  ^$%*m~ 
year,  the  board  of  education  of  such  city  school  district  board  of  educa- 
shall  prepare  and  deliver  to  each  member  of  said  "Board 

of  School  Estimate"  an  itemized  statement  of  the  amount 
of  money  estimated  to  be  necessary  for  the  current  ex- 
penses of  and  for  repairing  and  furnishing  the  public 
schools  of  such  district  for  the  ensuing  school  year,  and 
also  the  amount  which  shall  have  been  apportioned  to 
such  district  by  the  county  superintendent. 

77.  Between  the  fifteenth  day  of  May  and  the  first  Appropria- 

-  *  *  tions,  amount, 

day  of  June  in  each  year  said  "Board  of  School  Esti- 
mate"  shall  fix  and  determine  the  amount  of  money 
necessary  to  be  appropriated  for  the  use  of  the  public 
schools  in  such  district  for  the  ensuing  school  year,  exclu- 


32 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Appropria- 
tions, how 
made. 


Proviso. 


sive  of  the  amount  which  shall  have  been  apportioned  to  it 
by  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools.  Said  "Board 
of  School  Estimate"  shall,  on  or  before  the  last-named 
date,  make  two  certificates  of  said  amount,  signed  by 
at  least  three  of  the  members  of  said  board,  one  of  which 
certificates  shall  be  delivered  to  the  board  of  education 
of  said  school  district,  and  the  other  to  the  common 
council,  board  of  finance,  or  other  body  in  the  city  having 
the  power  to  make  appropriations  of  moneys  raised  by 
taxes  in  such  city.  Said  common  council,  board  of 
finance  or  other  body  shall,  upon  receipt  of  said  notice, 
appropriate  in  the  same  manner  as  other  appropriations 
are  made  by  it  the  amount  so  certified  as  aforesaid,  and 
said  amount  shall  be  assessed,  levied  and  collected  in 
the  same  manner  as  moneys  appropriated  for  other  pur- 
poses in  such  city  shall  be  assessed,  levied  and  collected  \ 
provided,  that  any  amount  in  excess  of  three-fourths 
of  one  per  centum  of  the  taxable  valuation  of  the  real 
and  personal  property  shall  be  appropriated  only  with 
the  concurrence  and  consent  of  said  common  council, 
board  of  finance  or  other  body,  expressed  by  its  resolu- 
tion duly  passed;  and  provided  further,  that  if  the 
charter  of  the  city  shall  limit  the  amount  of  tax  or  the 
rate  of  taxation  in  such  city,  so  that  the  provisions  of 
this  section  cannot  be  carried  out,  or  shall  otherwise  by 
its  terms  prevent  the  carrying  out  of  the  provisions  of 
this  section,  the  same  shall  be  hereafter  held  not  to  apply 
to  the  raising  of  money  under  the  provisions  of  this 
section. 
Appropria-  73.  Whenever  a  city  board  of  education  shall  decide 

tions  for  school  » 

necessai7  *°  raise  money  for  the  purchase  of 
lands  for  school  purposes,  or  for  erecting,  enlarging, 
repairing  or  furnishing  a  school-house  or  school-houses,. 
it  shall  prepare  and  deliver  to  each  member  of  the  "Board 
of  School  Estimate"  of  such  school  district  a  statement  of 
the  amount  of  money  estimated  to  be  necessary  for  such 
purpose  or  purposes.  Said  "Board  of  School  Estimate" 
shall  fix  and  determine  the  amount  necessary  for  such 
purpose  or  purposes,  and  shall  make  two  certificates  of 
such  amount,  one  of  which  certificates  shall  be  delivered 
to  the  board  of  education,  and  the  other  to  the  common 


Proviso. 


determined  °w  ^ 


SCHOOL  LAW.  33 

council,  board  of  finance  or  other  body  in  the  city  having 
the  power  to  make  appropriations  of  money  raised  by 
tax  in  such  city.  Said  common  council,  board  of  finance 
or  other  body  may  appropriate  such  sum  or  sums  for 
such  purpose  or  purposes  in  the  same  manner  as  other 
appropriations  are  made  by  it,  and  said  sum  or  sums 
shall  be  raised,  assessed,  levied  and  collected  at  the  same 
time  and  in  the  same  manner  as  moneys  appropriated 
for  other  purpose  in  such  city  are  raised,  assessed,  levied 
and  collected,  or  said  common  council,  board  of  finance 
or  other  body  may  appropriate  and  borrow  such  sum 
or  sums  for  the  purpose  or  purposes  aforesaid,  and  may 
secure  the  repayment  of  the  sum  or  sums  so  -borrowed, 
together  with  interest  thereon  at  a  rate  not  to  exceed 
five  per  centum  per  annum,  by  the  issue  of  bonds  in  *0£&* for  e 
the  corporate  name  of  such  city.  Bonds  so  issued  shall 
be  designated  "school  bonds;'7  shall  be  of  such  denomi- 
nation as  said  common  council,  board  of  finance  or  other 
body  may  determine,  and  shall  be  made  payable  in  not 
more  than  thirty  years  from  the  date  thereof.  Such 
bonds  may  be  registered  or  coupon  bonds,  or  may  be 
registered  and  coupon  bonds  combined  at  the  option  of 
such  common  council,  board  of  finance  or  other  body. 
The  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  such  bonds  shall  be  deposited 
with  the  custodian  of  school  moneys  of  such  school  dis- 
trict, and  shall  be  paid  out  only  on  the  warrants  or 
orders  of  the  board  of  education;  provided,  that  the  Proviso, 
total  amount  of  bonds  for  the  purposes  named  in  this 
section,  including  bonds  theretofore  issued  for  such  pur- 
poses, and  not  redeemed,  shall  not  exceed  at  any  one 
time  a  sum  equal  to  three  per  centum  of  the  taxable 
valuation  of  the  real  and.  personal  property  in  such  city ; 
provided  further,  that  if  the  charter  of  the  city  shall  Proviso, 
limit  the  amount  of  indebtedness  in  such  city,  or  shall 
by  its  terms  prevent  the  carrying  out  of  the  provisions 
of  this  section,  the  same  shall  be  hereafter  held  not  to 
apply  to  the  issuing  of  bonds  under  the  provisions  of 
this  section. 

79.  Any  such  board  of  education  shall  have  all  the  Powers  of  board 
powers  granted  to  boards  of  education  under  other  articles  OI 

3 


34  SCHOOL  LAW. 

of  this  act,  except  as  they  are  limited  by  or  are  incon- 
sistent with  the  provisions  of  this  article. 

80*  ^^e  accePtance  of  the  provisions  of  section  forty- 
two  or  f°rtJ"tnree  snaH  be  submitted  to  the  qualified 
t£urunder  5S"  voters  °^  anv  G^J  at  a  general  or  municipal  election  to 
lions  42  atd  43.  be  held  therein ;  provided,  that  such  submission  shall 
be  had  and  such  vote  shall  be  taken  whenever  the  common 
council,  board  of  aldermen  or  other  legislative  body  of 
the  city,  or  the  board  of  education  of  any  school  district 
situate  in  such  city  shall  have,  by  resolution,  determined 
that  such  question  shall  be  so  submitted,  or  whenever 
at  least  five  per  centum  of  the  legal  voters  of  such  city, 
as  shown  by  the  election  returns  at  the  last  election  in 
such  city,  shall,  by  their  petition  duly  signed  and  deliv- 
ered to  the  clerk  of  such  city,  have  requested  that  such 
question  shall  be  so  submitted;  provided  further,  that 
the  question  of  accepting  the  provisions  of  either  section 
forty-two  or  forty-three  shall  not  be  submitted  to  the 
legal  voters  of  any  city  more  often  than  once  in  five 
Management  to  years.  In  any  city  school  district,  until  the  organization 

remain  in  pre»-  J  i      <•      -i  .         •  TIT        •  -i- 

ent  boards  until  of  a  board  of  education  in  such  school  district  as  provided 

new  boards          .  ...  ,,  , 

organized.  m  section  forty-two  or  forty-three  of  this  act,  the  ad- 
ministration and  conduct  of  the  public  schools  and  the 
management  and  control  of  the  public  school  property 
therein,  shall  remain  in  and  shall  be  exercised  by  any 
board  of  education  or  other  body  theretofore  having 

Powers  of         control  of  the  public  schools  therein.      Said  board  of 

boaid. 

education  or  other  body  shall  be  hereafter  deemed  to  be 
incorporated  under  the  provisions  of  section  forty-eight 
of  this  act,  and  shall  have  all  the  powers  and  be  charged 
with  all  the  duties  conferred  or  inrposed  upon  a  board 
of  education  as  provided  in  this  article,  and  the  members 
cf  any  such  board  of  education  or  other  body  shall  be 
selected,  elected  or  appointed  at  the  same  time,  in  the 
same  manner,  and  shall  serve  for  the  same  terms  as 
members  of  such  board  of  education  or  other  body  have 
when  old  been  heretofore  selected,  elected  or  appointed.  Upon 

b<mrd  abol-  '  •*•  A  . 

the  organization  of  a  board  of  education  in  said  district, 
as  provided  in  section  forty-two  or  forty-three,  the  board 
of  education  or  other  body  theretofore  having  charge  of 
the  public  schools  in  such  school  district  or  in  such  city, 


SCHOOL  LAW.  35 

or  having  custody,  charge  or  management  of  any  fund 
or  property  used  for  or  in  the  maintaining  of  public 
schools  in  such  district  or  city,  and  having  no  other 
function,  shall  be  ipso  facto  abolished. 


AETICLE  VII. 

BOARDS  OF  EDUCATION  IN  TOWNSHIP,  INCORPORATED 
TOWN   AND   BOROUGH   SCHOOL   DISTRICTS, 

81.  In  each  township  and  incorporated  town  and  in  Boards  of  edu- 

,         ...  i       i     T       •        cation  in  town- 

<each  borough  which  may  be  a  separate  school  district,  ships,  town*  or 

i  -     -      i  .     .  /.       .        boroughs,  how 

there  shall  be  a  board  of  education  consisting  01  nine  constituted, 
members,  except  as  hereinafter  provided ;  three  members 
of  such  board  shall  be  chosen  ai  each  annual  school  meet- 
ing and  shall  hold  office  for  the  term  of  three  years.  In 
case  there  shall  be  a  vacancy  in  a  board  of  education, 
such  vacancy  shall  be  filled  at  the  next  annual  meeting 
after  such  vacancy  occurs,  and  the  person  elected  to  fill 
such  vacancy  shall  be  elected  for  the  unexpired  term 
only;  provided,  that  nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  Proviso, 
construed  so  as  to  require  any  such  school  district  which 
now  has  a  board  of  education  consisting  of  less  than  nine 
members  to  increase  the  number  of  members  to  nine. 

82.  If  the  board  of  education  in  any  school  district  Number  of 

-,.  .  i     -IT   i  members  may 

created  under  the  provisions  of  this  article  shall  deem  be  reduced, 
it  for  the  best  interests  of  the  schools  that  the  number 
of  members  constituting  said  board  shall  be  reduced, 
the  district  clerk,  when  directed  by  said  board,  shall 
insert  in  the  call  for  the  next  annual  meeting  a  notice 
that  it  will  be  determined  at  said  meeting  whether  the 
board  of  education  shall  consist  of  three  or  nine  mem- 
bers. If  it  shall  be  determined  at  said  meeting  that  the 
board  of  education  shall  consist  of  three  members,  then 
no  election  for  members  of  said  board  shall  be  held  until 
the  expiration  of  the  terms  of  office  of  all  the  members 
of  said  board  then  in  office,  and  at  the  second  annual 
school  meeting  held  after  the  meeting  at  which  it  was 
determined  to  reduce  the  number  of  members  of  the 
board  to  three,  there  shall  be  elected  three  members  of 


86  SCHOOL  LAW. 

said  board  to  serve  for  one,  two  and  three  years  respec- 
tively, and  thereafter  one  member  of  said  board  shall  be 
chosen  at  each  annual  school  meeting  who  shall  hold 
office  for  the  term  of  three  years. 

cationsinfnew         ^'  Wnenever  in  any  township,  incorporated  town  or 

district.  borough  a  new  school  district  shall  be  created,  there 

shall  be  held,  at  the  ensuing  annual  school  meeting,  an 
election  for  members  of  the  board  of  education.  Before 
proceeding  to  ballot  for  such  members  of  the  board  of 
education,  the  legal  voters  present  shall  determine 
whether  the  board  of  education  shall  consist  of  three 
or  nine  members.  If  it  shall  be  determined  that  the 
board  shall  consist  of  three  members,  then  said  legal 
voters  shall  elect  one  member  to  serve  for  the  term  of 
one  year,  one  for  the  term  of  two  years  and  one  for  the 
term  of  three  years.  If  it  shall  be  determined  that  said 
board  shall  consist  of  nine  members,  said  legal  voters- 
shall  elect  three  members  to  serve  for  the  term  of  one 
year,  three  for  the  term  of  two  years  and  three  fur  the 
term  of  three  years,  and  annually  thereafter  there  shall 
be  elected  three  persons  for  the  term  of  three  years  in 
the  place  of  the  members  whose  terms  shall  have  expired. 

meet?*1  district  ^'  ^n  anniial  meeting  for  the  election  of  members- 
of  the  board  of  education  shall  be  held  in  each  township, 
incorporated  town  or  borough  school  district  on  the  third 
Tuesday  in  March  at  a  school-house  or  such  other  con- 
venient public  place  within  the  district  as  may  be  selected 

Noticts.  \>y  the  board  of  education.  Not  less  than  seven  notices 

of  such  meeting,  specifying  the  day,  time,  abject  and 
place  thereof,  shall  be  posted  by  the  district  clerk  at 
least  ten  days  before  the  date  of  such  meeting;  one  of 
such  notices  shall  be  posted  on  each  school-house  within 
the  district,  and  at  such  other  public  places  therein  as 

Penalty  for       the  board  of  education  of  said  district  shall  direct.    Any 

failure  to  post  ...  .  ,,.  ., 

notices.  district  clerk  who  shall  fail  to  post  notices  calling  said 

annual  meeting  as  required  by  this  section  shall  pay  a 
fine  of  twenty  dollars,  to  be'  recovered  in  a  court  for 
.  the  trial  of  small  causes  by  any  resident  of  said  school 
district.  A  plurality  of  the  votes  cast  shall  be  sufficient 
to  elect  a  member  of  a  board  of  education. 

85.  A  member  of  a  board  of  education  created  under 


SCHOOL  LAW.  37 

the  provisions  of  this  article  shall  be  at  least  twenty-five 
years  of  age,  a  citizen  and  resident  of  the  school  district, 
&nd  shall  have  been  such  citizen  and  resident  for  at  least 
three  years  immediately  preceding  his  or  her  becoming 
a  member  of  such  board,  and  shall  be  able  to  read  and 
write.  He  shall  not  be  interested  directly  or  indirectly 
in  any  contract  with  nor  claim  against  said  board. 

86.  Every  male   citizen  of   the   United   States   who  Qualifications 
shall  have  the  qualifications  required  for  electors  for  the  ?nn°o1  meet- 
Oeneral  Assembly  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,   shall 

have  the  right  to  vote  at  such  meeting.  Every  female 
citizen  of  the  United  States  of  the  age  of  twenty-one 
\ears  and  possessing  the  qualifications  respecting  resi- 
dence required  of  male  voters,  shall  have  the  right  to  vote 
at  any  annual  or  special  school  meeting  of  the  legal 
voters  of  said  school  district  for  any  purpose  other  than 
the  election  of  members  of  the  board  of  education,  (a) 

87.  All  elections  for  members  of  a  board  of  education  Elections  to  be 
•created  under  the  provisions  of  this  article  shall  be  by 

ballot.  The  polls  for  such  election  shall  remain  open 
one  hour  and  as  much  longer  as  may  be  necessary  to 
-enable  the  legal  voters  present  to  cast  their  ballots.  Said 
ballots  may  be  printed  or  written,  or  partly  printed  and 
partly  written.  In  case  a  member  of  a  board  of  education 
is  to  be  elected  for  a  full  term,  and  a  member  is  to  be 
•elected  to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  the  ballots  shall  desig- 
nate which  of  the  persons  voted  for  is  to  be  elected  for 
the  full  term,  and  which  for  the  unexpired  term.  The  Method  of  con- 

i     .  -,  .  .  ,-,  ducting  elec- 

chairman  of  the  meeting  shall  appoint  two  tellers  who 
shall  receive  and  count  the  ballots  in  his  presence  and 
said  chairman  shall  announce  the  result  of  such  election. 
The  secretary  of  the  meeting  shall  keep  a  poll-list  and 
record  therein  the  name  of  each  person  voting  at  such 
•election  and  shall  also  keep  a  tally-sheet  of  the  votes 

(a)  1.  Trustees  of  school  districts  are  municipal  officers,  and  being 
elected  by  the  people,  those  who  vote  for  them  must  have  the  qualifi- 
cations required  by  Article  II.  of  the  Constitution  of  New  Jersey.  State 
v.  Deshlcr,  1  Butcher  177. 

2.  School  trustees  are  officers  within  Article  II.,  paragraph  1,  of  the 
Constitution,  so  that,  if  they  are  made  elective  by  the  people,  only  male 
citizens  can  vote  for  them.     Kimball  v.  Hendee,  28  Vr.  307. 

3.  Women  may  vote  at  school   meetings  for  all   purposes   except  the 
election  of  officers.     Landis  v.  Ashworth,   28   Vr.  509;    Chamberlain  v. 
Cranbury,  28  Vr.  605. 


38 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Two  ballot- 
boxes  in  cer- 
tain cases. 


as  counted  by  the  tellers.  The  tally-sheet  shall  be  signed 
by  the  chairman  and  tellers,  and  said  tally-sheet,  poll- 
list  and  ballots  shall  be  placed  by  the  secretary  in  a 
sealed  package  indorsed  with  the  name  of  the  district,, 
the  name  of  the  county  in  which  said  district  shall  be 
situate  and  the  date  on  which  said  election  shall  have 
been  held,  and  said  package,  together  with  a  statement 
of  the  result  of  said  election  signed  by  the  chairman 
and  secretary,  shall  be,  by  said  secretary,  deposited  with 
the  district  clerk,  and  a  copy  of  said  statement  shall  be 
forwarded  by  said  secretary  to  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  within  five  days  after  the  date  of 
such  election  and  the  same  shall  be  preserved  for  one 
year. 

88.  At  any  annual  meeting  when  the  question  of  rais- 
ing a  tax,  the  issuing  of  bonds,  or  the  establishing  of  a 
union  graded  school  is  to  be  voted  on,  two  ballot-boxes 
shall  be  provided  and  two  tellers  shall  be  appointed  for 
each  box.     One  of  said  boxes  shall  be  used  to  receive 
the  ballots  for  members  of  the  board  of  education  and 
the  other  to  receive  the  ballots  for  the  other  objects 
enumerated  in  this  section. 

89.  Each  board  of  education  elected  as  provided  in 
this  article  shall  be  a  body  corporate,  and  shall  be  known 
as  and  called  "the  board  of  education  of  the  township 

(town  or  borough,  as  the  case  may  be)  of ,  in- 

the  county  of ." 

90.  Each  board  of  education  created  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this   article  shall  organize  within  ten  days- 
after  the  annual  school  meeting  by  the  election  of  one 
of  its  members  as  president,  and  a  district  clerk,  and 
may  fix  the  compensation  of  said  clerk.     If  said  board 
shall  fail  to  organize  within  ten  days  the  County  Super- 
intendent of   Schools   shall   appoint,   from   among  said 
members  a  president  and  a  district  clerk.     In  case  >the 
office  of  president  or  district  clerk  shall  become  vacant, 
the  board  <3f  education  shall,  within  thirty  days  there- 
after, fill  such  vacancy  for  the  unexpired  term,  and  if 
it  shall  fail  to  fill  said  vacancy  within  the  said  thirty 
days  the   County   Superintendent  of   Schools   shall  fill 

Oath  of  office,    such  vacancy  for  the  unexpired  term.     A  member  of 
such  board  of  education  shall,  before  entering  upon  the 


Corporate 
Dame  of  board 
of  education. 


Organization  of 
board  of  educa- 
tion. 


Vacancies,  how 
filled. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  39 

duties  of  his  office,  take  and  subscribe  an  oath  before 
any  officer  authorized  by  law  to  administer  oaths,  that 
he  possesses  the  qualifications  to  be  a  member  of  said 
board  prescribed  therefor  in  this  article,  and  that  he 
will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  his  said  office. 
Said  oath  shall  be  filed  with  the  district  clerk  of  said 
board. 

91.  The  board  of  education  shall  have  power:  SfJSSSSf* 

I.  To  appoint  a  person  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  board  Appoint  mem- 
of  education,  but  the  person  so   appointed  shall,  serve  vacancy, 
only  until  the  next  regular  election  for  members  of  the 

board  of  education; (a) 

II.  To  employ  and  dismi'ss  principals,  teachers,  jani-  Employ  teach- 
tors,  mechanics  and  laborers,  and  to  fix,  alter  and  order 

paid  their  salaries  and  compensation; 

III.  To  make  and  enforce  rules  and  regulations  not  Make  rules, 
in  conflict  with  this  act  nor  with  the  rules  and  regula- 
tions of  the  State  Board  of  Education  for  the  govern- 
ment of  schools,  pupils  and  teachers; 

IV.  To  purchase,  sell  and  improve  school  grounds;  o^^se 
to  erect,  lease,  enlarge,  improve,  repair  or  furnish  school  houses, 
buildings  and  to  borrow  money  therefor  with  or  without 
mortgage;   provided,  that  for  any  such  act  it  shall  have  Proviso 
the  previous  authority  of  a  vote  of  the  legal  voters  of 

the  district; 

V.  To  take  and  condemn  land  and  other  property  for 
school  purposes  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  regu-  P°ses- 
lating  the  ascertainment  and  payment  of  compensation 

for  property  condemned  and  taken  for  public  use.  If 
either  party  shall  feel  aggrieved  by  any  proceedings  and 
award  thereunder,  said  party  may  appeal  in  the  manner 
provided  by  law  for  appeals  from  such  proceedings  and 
award ;  provided,  that  before  beginning  any  proceedings  Proviso, 
for  taking  and  condemning  land  and  other  property,  the 
board  of  education  shall  have  the  authority  of  a  vote 
of  the  legal  voters  of  the  district; 

VI.  To  insure  school  buildings,  furniture  and  other  P"opertyCh001 
school  property,  and  to  receive,  lease  and  hold  in  trust 

for  the  district  any  and  all  real  or  personal  property 
for  the  benefit  of  the  schools  thereof; 

(a)   The  office  of  trustee  is  not  vacated  by  an  unaccepted  resignation. 
Townsend  v.  Trustees,  dc.t  12  Vr.  312. 


40 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Select  text- 
books,  etc. 


Suspend  or  ex- 
pel pupils. 
Provide  text- 
books. 


Call  special 
meetings  of 
legal  voters. 


VII.  To  enforce  the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed 
by  the  State  Board  of  Education,  select  the  text-books, 
and,  in  connection  with  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  to  prescribe  the  course  of  study  to  be  pursued 
in  the  school  or  schools  under  its  charge; (a) 

VIII.  To  suspend  or  expel  pupils  from  school: 

IX.  To  provide  text-books  and  other  necessary  school 
supplies ; 

X.  To  call  a  special  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  the 
district  at  any  time  when  in  its  judgment  the  interests 
of  the  school  require  it,  or  whenever  fifty  of  such  legal 
voters  shall  request  it  by  petition  so  to   do.      In   the 
notices  of  any  special  meeting,  called  upon  petition  as 
aforesaid,  shall  be  inserted  the  purposes  named  in  said 
petition  so  far  as  the  same  are  not  in  conflict  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act.     !N"o  business  shall  be  transacted 
at  any  special  meeting  except  such  as  shall  have  been 
set  forth  in  the  notices  by  which  said  meeting  was  called. 
Special  meetings  shall  be  called  in  the  manner  provided 
for  calling  the  annual  meetings  ;(&) 

(a)  The  school  laws  are  not  rendered  special  or  local,  or  otherwise 
unconstitutional  by  the  fact  that  under  them  a  higher  grade  of  education 
may  be  afforded  to  the  children  in  one  district  than  that  offered  to  those 
in  another.     Landis  v.  Ashworth,  28  Vr,  509. 

(b)  1.  A  special  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  a  school  district,  duly 
called,  may  vote  to  raise  money  for  school  purposes,  although  such  appro- 
priation has  been  refused  at  the  annual  meeting.     State,  Trustees,  &c., 
v.  Lewis,  6  Vr.  377.     Special  meetings  of  the  voters  of  a  school  district 
cannot  be  called  unless  ordered  by  the  board  of  trustees  regularly  con- 
vened.    Bogert  v.  Trustees,  dc.,  14  Vr.  358.     Where  money  is  ordered 
to  be  raised  by  taxation  at  a  special  meeting,  the  previous  action  of  the 
trustees  in  calling  such  meeting  in  pursuance  of  authority  here  given, 
must  appear  in  the  certificate  of  the  clerk  to  the  assessor.     Lamb  v. 
Hurff,  9  Vr.  310  ;   Slack  v.  Palmer,  10  Vr.  250. 

2.  Notices  for  special   school   meetings  to  raise  special   school  taxes 
should  be  put  up  at  least  ten  days  before  the  time  of  meeting.    Davis  V. 
Rapp,  14  Vr.  594. 

3.  At  a  special  district  meeting  called  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  a 
school  district  to  build  an  addition  to  a  school-house,  a  majority  of  the 
votes  of  the  taxable  residents  present  at  a  meeting  is  sufficient  authority 
to  act.     Crandall  v.  Trustees,  dc.,  22  Vr.  138. 

4.  A  special  school  tax,  ordered  by  a  special  meeting  of  the  voters, 
which  was  not  called  by  the  board  of  trustees  and  of  which  the  district 
clerk  did  not  give  notice,  will  be  set  aside.     Apgar  v.  Van  Syckle,  17 
Vr.  492. 

5.  A  special  meeting  can  vote  to  raise  money  to  build  a  school-house, 
although  a  similar  proposition  has  been  rejected  at  a  previous  special 
meeting  held  in  the  same  year.    Stackhouse  v.  School  District  43,  Sussex 
Co.,  23  Vr.  291 ;    Chamberlain  v.  Cranbury,  28  Vr.  605. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  41 

XL  To  permit  a  school-house  to  be  used  for  other  use  of  school- 
house  for  other 
than    school    purposes    when    the    board    shall    consent  purposes. 

thereto ; 

XII.  To  adopt  an  official  seal  by  which  all  its  official  seal, 
acts  may  be  authenticated ; 

XIII.  To  make  an  annual  report  to  the  County  Su-  Annual  report, 
perintendent  of  Schools  on  or  before  the  first  day  of 

August  in  the  manner  and  form  prescribed  by  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction; 

XIV.  To  borrow,   after  the   first  day  of  July   and  Borrow  money." 
before  the  first  day  of  January,  a  sum  not  exceeding 

one-half  of  the  amount  appropriated  for  the  current 
expenses  of  the  schools  and  for  the  repair  of  school- 
houses  under  its  control,  and  to  execute  and  deliver 
promissory  notes  therefor,  and  to  pay  the  amount  so 
borrowed  together  with  interest  thereon,  at  a  rate  not 
exceeding  six  per  centum  per  annum. 

92.  A  board  of  education  may  appoint  a  suitable  per- 
son  as  supervising  principal  of  schools,  define  his  duties 

and  fix  his  salary;    provided,  that  no  person  shall  be  Proviso. 

appointed  supervising  principal  unless  he  or  she  shall 

hold  either  a  state  or  first-grade  county  certificate;    and  Proviso. 

provided  further,  that  the  boards  of  education  of  two 

or  more  districts  may  unite  in  employing  a  supervising 

principal. 

93.  No  principal  or  teacher   shall  be   appointed   or  Majority  vote 

required  in  cer- 

dismissed,  nor  the  amount  of  his  or  her  salary  fixed;  tam  cases, 
no  school  term  shall  be  determined,  nor  shall  any  course 
of  study  be  adopted  or  altered,  nor  text-books  selected, 
except  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  whole  number  of  mem- 
bers of  the  board  of  education. 

94.  The  board  of  education  of  every  school  district  Regular  meet- 
elected  under  the  provisions  of  this  article,  shall  meet 

for  the  transaction  of  business  at  least  once  in  two 
months  during  the  period  that  the  schools  in  said  dis- 
trict shall  be  in  session.  !N"o  contract  shall  be  entered 
into  by  a  board  of  education,  nor  shall  any  bill  or  demand 
for  money  against  such  board  be  paid  until  the  same 
shall  have  been  presented  and  passed  on  at  a  regularly 
called  meeting  of  the  board. 


42 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Bills  must  be 
itemized. 


Proviso. 


Affidavit  to 
bills. 


Penalty  for  vio- 
lation of  provi- 
sions of  section. 


Duties  of  dis- 
trict clerk. 


Post  notices  of 
district  meet- 
ings. 


95.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  board  of  education 
to  order  paid  out  of  the  school  moneys  under  its  control, 
any   money   for   school   supplies,   books,   maps,    charts, 
globes,  fuel,   erecting,   enlarging,   repairing,   furnishing; 
or  improving  school  buildings  and  grounds,  unless  the 
person  claiming  said  money  shall  first  present  to  said 
board  an  itemized  bill  showing  the  name  of  the  person 
to  whom  the  amount  of  such  bill  is  due ;   provided  that 
the  district  clerk,  whenever  authorized  by  said  board,, 
may  purchase  such  supplies  for  the  school  or  schools- 
under  its  control  and  shall  present  an  itemized  bill  of 
the  same  with  his  affidavit  attached,  which  bill  shall  be- 
acted  on  and  paid  as  other  bills  are  paid.     Every  person- 
presenting  any  such  bill  exceeding  in  amount  the  sum 
of  five  dollars,  shall  make  an  affidavit  that  the  goods* 
or  services  itemized  in  said  bill  have  been  delivered  or 
rendered,  and  that  no  bonus  nor  reward  has  been  given 
or  received  by  any  person  with  the  knowledge  of  the 
deponent  in  connection  with  the  claim,  and  that  said 
bill  is  correct  and  true.     The  district  clerk  is  hereby 
authorized   to   take   said    affidavit   without   cost.      Any 
member  of  a  board   of  education  who   shall  willfully 
violate  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  punished  by  a  fine  not 
to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars.     Said  fine  when  collected 
shall  be  paid  to  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of 
the  school  district  for  the  use  of  the  district. 

96.  The  district  clerk  shall  record  in  a  suitable  book 
all  proceedings  of  the  board  of  education,  of  the  annual 
school  meetings,   and  of  special  school  meetings.     He 
shall  pay  out  by  orders  on  the  custodian  of  the  school 
moneys  of  the  school  district,  and  in  the  manner  pre- 
scribed by  law,  all  school  moneys  of  the  district.     He 
shall  keep   a  correct   and   detailed   account  of   all  the 
expenditures  of  school  moneys  in  the  district,  and  shall 
report  the  same  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools* 
At   each   annual   school   meeting  he   shall   present   his 
record-books  and  his  accounts  for  public  inspection,  and! 
shall  make  a  statement  of  the  financial  condition  of  the 
district.     He  shall  post  notices  of  the  annual  and  of  any 
special  meeting  of  the  legal  voters,  and  shall  insert  in 


SCHOOL  LAW.  43- 

said  notices  the  object  or  objects  for  which  said  meeting 
shall  be  called,  and  shall  notify  all  members  of  the  board 
of  education  of  all  regular  and  special  meetings  of  the 
board. 

97.  A  member  of  a  board  of  education  elected  under  Removal  of 

<•  •  i.         i          i     YI    *  *i  i   member  for  not 

the  provisions  of  this  article  who  shall  fail  to  attend  attending 

<.  -i         •  i      meetings. 

three  consecutive  regular  meetings  of  said  board,  with- 
out good  cause,  may  be  removed  by  said  board,  and  the 
vacancy  thus  created  shall  be  filled  in  the  same  manner 
as  other  vacancies  in  the  board  of  education  shall  be 
filled. 

98.  The  boards  of  education  in  the  several  school  dis-  semi-annual 

meetings  of 

tricts  in  each  county  organized  under  the  provisions  of  Jjjgj^8  of  edu~ 


this  article,  shall  meet  together  semi-annually  at  such 
times  and  places  as  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 
shall  appoint. 

99.  A  board  of  education  may  sue  and  be  sued,  com-  Right  to  sue, 
plain  and  defend  in  any  court  of  law  and  equity,  and 
employ  counsel  therefor,  and  the  amount  of  the  expense 
incurred  by  said  board  in  conducting  or  defending  any 

such  suit  shall  be  certified  to  the  assessor  by  the  president 
and  district  clerk  of  such  board,  and  said  amount  shall 
be  assessed  and  collected  in  the  next  annual  tax  levy,  (a) 

AETICLE  VIII. 

TEACHEKS. 

100.  A  board  of  education  may  make  rules  and  regu-  Rules  for  the 
lations  governing  the  engagement  and  employment  of  teacnermen 
teachers  and  principals,  the  terms  and  tenure  of  such 
employment,  and  the  promotion  and  dismissal  of  such 
teachers  and  principals,  the  salaries,  and  the  time  and 

mode  of  payment  thereof,  and  may  from  time  to  time 
change,  amend  or  repeal  such  rules  and  regulations.  The 
employment  of  any  teacher  by  such  board,  and  the  rights 

(a)  The  action  must  be  brought  against  the  district  by  its  corporate 
name,  and  not  against  the  trustees  in  their  individual  names,  with 
description  appended  of  "Trustees,  &c."  Sproul  v.  Smith,  11  Vr.  314. 
The  trustees  of  a  school  district,  In  their  corporate  capacity,  are  not 
liable  to  be  sued  in  a  justice's  or  district  court.  Townsend  v.  Trustees, 
dc.t  12  Vr.  312 ;  Trustees,  dc.,  v.  Stacker,  13  Vr.  115. 


44 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


•Contract  with 
teacher. 


and  duties  of  such  teacher  with  respect  to  such  employ- 
ment, shall  be  dependent  upon  and  shall  be  governed  by 
the  rules  and  regulations  in  force  with  reference  thereto. 
If  a  board  of  education  shall  not  have  made  rules  and 
regulations  as  aforesaid,  then  no  contract  between  such 
board  of  education  and  a  teacher  shall  be  valid  unless 
the  same  shall  be  in  writing,  or  partly  written  and  partly 
printed,  in  triplicate,  signed  by  the  president  and  dis- 
trict clerk  or  secretary  of  the  board  of  education  and  by 
the  teacher.  One  copy  thereof  shall  be  filed  with  the 
board  of  education,  one  copy  with  the  teacher  and  one 
copy  with  the  county  or  city  superintendent.  Such  con- 
tract shall  specify  the  date  when  such  teacher  shall  begin 
teaching,  the  kind  and  grade  of  certificate  held  by  said 
teacher  and  the  date  when  said  certificate  will  expire, 
the  salary,  and  such  other  matter  as  may  be  necessary 
.•school  month,  to  a  full  and  complete  understanding  of  the  same.  In 
every  such  contract,  unless  otherwise  specified,  a  month 
shall  be  construed  and  taken  to  be  twenty  school  days 
or  four  weeks  of  five  school  days  each.  The  salary 
specified  in  every  such  contract  shall  be  paid  in  equal 
monthly  installments,  not  later  than  five  days  after  the 
close  of  each  month  while  the  school  shall  be  in  session. 
Any  contract  or  engagement  between  a  board  of  educa- 
tion and  a  teacher  shall  cease  and  determine  and  be 
of  no  effect  against  said  board  whenever  said  board  shall 
ascertain  by  notice  in  writing  received  from  the  county 
or  city  superintendent  or  otherwise,  that  said  teacher 
is  not  in  possession  of  a  proper  teacher's  certificate  in 
full  force  and  effect,  notwithstanding  the  term  or  en- 
gagement for  which  such  contract  shall  have  been  made 
may  not  then  have  expired.  The  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  shall  prepare  and  distribute  blanks  for 
contracts  between  boards  of  education  and  teachers,  (a) 
101.  In  case  the  dismissal  of  any  teacher  before  the 
expiration  of  any  contract  entered  into  between  such 
teacher  and  a  board  of  education  shall,  upon  appeal,  be 
decided  to  have  been  without  good  cause,  such  teacher 


Blank  con- 
tracts prepared 
by  state  super- 
intendent. 


Dismissal  of 
teacher. 


(a)  The  employment  of  teachers  by  school  corporations  is  an  act  judicial 
In  its  character,  and  should  be  done  at  a  meeting  of  the  trustees,  of 
which  all  should  have  notice  and  in  which  all  have  an  opportunity  to 
participate.  Townsend  v.  Trustees,  rfc.,  12  Vr.  312. 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

shall  be  entitled  to  compensation  for  the  full  term  for 
which  said  contract  shall  have  been  made;  but  it  shall 
be  optional  with  the  board  of  education  whether  such 
teacher  shall  or  shall  not  teach  for  the  unexpired  term,  (a) 

102.  If  a  teacher  employed  by  a  board  of  education 
shall  leave  the  school  before  the  expiration  of  the  term 

of  his  or  her  employment,  without  the  consent  of  the  contract, 
board  of  education,  said  teacher  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  unprofessional  conduct,  and  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  is  authorized,  upon  receiving 
notice  of  such  fact,  to  suspend  the  certificate  of  such 
teacher  for  a  period  not  exceeding  one  year. 

103.  Every  teacher  in  a  public  school  shall  keep  a  Teacher  to 

.  •  -I     -i     i          />  i  keep  school- 

School  register  in  the  manner  provided  therelor,  and  no  register. 

salary  shall  be  paid  to  such  teacher  until  the  district 
clerk  or  other  officer  or  person  authorized  to  deliver  the 
check,  order  or  warrant  for  such  salary  shall  ascertain 
that  such  register  has  been  properly  kept  for  the  time 
for  which  salary  is  demanded,  and  shall  enter  upon 
said  register  a  certificate  to  that  effect.  The  check, 
order  or  warrant  for  the  balance  of  salary  due  any 
teacher  at  the  time  of  closing  the  school  for  the  summer 
vacation,  or  of  leaving  the  school  before  the  end  of  the 
school  year,  shall  not  be  delivered  to  such  teacher  until 
the  district  clerk  or  other  officer  authorized  to  deliver 

(a)  1.  A  school  teacher  who  has  rendered  services  according  to  the 
requirements  of  the  School  law,  and  is  refused  compensation  out  of  the 
fund  specially  provided  for  that  purpose,  is  entitled  to  a  mandamus  to 
compel  the  proper  officers  to  perform  their  duty,  and  to  make  payment 
of  what  is  justly  due.  Apgar  v.  School  Trustees,  &c.,  5  Vr.  308. 

2.  In  an  action  brought  by  a  teacher  to  recover  of  the  trustees  of  a 
school  district  for  services  as  a  teacher,  an  objection  that  the  plaintiff 
was  not  the  holder  of  a  proper  teacher's  certificate  in  full  force  and  effect 
cannot   be   made  after  the   evidence   is  closed   and  the  cause   is  being 
summed  up.     Sproul  v.  Smith,  11  Vr.  314. 

3.  A  school   teacher  who  has  litigated   successfully  before  the  state 
superintendent  the  controverted  questions  upon  which  her  right  to  com- 
pensation depends,  is  entitled  to  a  writ  of  mandamus  to  enforce  a  decision 
In  her  favor.     Thompson  v.  Board  of  Education,  28  Vr.  628. 

4.  In  such  a  case  the  only  burden  upon  the  relator  is  to  show  that  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  state  superintendent  extended  to  the  matter  in  dispute 
and  over  the  parties  in  controversy.     Iltid. 

5.  Special  tribunals  created  by  statute  have  exclusive  jurisdiction  over 
all  controversies  arising  under  such  statutes,  and  an  action  at  law  cannot 
be  maintained  by  a  public  school  teacher  for  the  purpose  of  contesting 
the  legality  of  the  action  of  a  local  school  board  in  dismissing  him  before 
the  term  of  service  provided  in  his  contract  of  employment  has  expired. 
Draper  v.  Camden,  48  Atl.  Rep.  556. 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Proviso. 


Teachers  not 
required  to 
teach  on  holi- 
days. 


Teacher's 
authority  orer 
pupils. 


Proviso. 


€orporal  pun- 
ishment pro- 
hibited. 


Teacher  must 
hold  certificate. 


Religious  exer- 
cises. 


such  check,  order  or  warrant  shall  have  received  written 
notice  from  the  county  or  city  superintendent  that  such 
teacher  has  filed  with  him  his  or  her  annual  report  on 
the  blank  furnished  for  that  purpose  by  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction;  provided,  that  in  any 
school  in  which  more  than  one  teacher  shall  be  employed 
the  principal  thereof  shall  furnish  such  report. 

104.  No  teacher  shall  be  required  to  teach  school  on 
any  day  declared  by  law  to  be  a  public  holiday,  and 
no  deduction  from  a  teacher's  salary  shall  be  made  by 
reason  of  the  fact  that  a  school  day  happens  to  be  a  day 
declared  by  law  to  be  a  public  holiday.     Any  contract 
made  in  violation  of  this  section  shall  have  no  force  or 
effect  as  against  a  teacher. 

105.  A  teacher  shall  hold  every  pupil  accountable  in 
school  for  disorderly  conduct  on  the  way  to  or  from 
school,  or  on  the  play-grounds  of  the  schools,  or  during 
recess,  and  shall  suspend  from  school  any  pupil  for  good 
cause;   provided,  that  such  suspension  shall  be  reported 
forthwith  by  the  teacher  to  the  board  of  education; 
provided  further,  that  in  any  school  in  which  more  than 
one  teacher  shall  be  employed  the  principal  alone  shall 
have  the  power  to  suspend  a  pupil. 

106.  No  principal,  teacher  or  other  person  employed 
or  engaged  in  any  capacity  in  any  school  or  educational 
institution,  whether  public  or  private,  shall  inflict  or 
cause  to  be  inflicted  corporal  punishment  upon  any  pupil 
attending  such  school  or  institution,  and  every  resolu- 
tion, by-law,  rule,  ordinance  or  other  act  or  authority 
heretofore  or  hereafter  passed,  adopted,  approved,  made 
or  given  by  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever,  natural  or 
artificial,  permitting  or  authorizing  corporal  punishment 
to  be  inflicted  upon  any  pupil  attending  or  that  may 
attend   any   school  or   educational  institution   shall   be 
henceforth  void  and  of  no  force  or  effect. 

107.  No  teacher  shall  be  entitled  to  any  salary  unless 
such   teacher    shall    be    the   holder   of    an    appropriate 
teacher's  certificate.     . 

108.  No  religious  service  or  exercise,  except  the  read- 
ing of  the  Bible  and  the  repeating  of  the  Lord's  Prayer, 


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shall  be  held  in  any  school  receiving  any  portion  of  the 
moneys  appropriated  for  the  support  of  public  schools. 

109.  No  teacher  shall  be  required  to  serve  on  any 
jury  in  this  state  while  his  school  shall  be  in  session.        duty- 

AKTICLE  IX. 

PUPILS. 

110.  Public  schools  shall  be  free  to  all  persons  over  school  age  of 
•five  and  under  twenty  years  of  age  who  shall  be  residents 

of  the  school  district.    Non-residents  of  a  school  district,  Tuition  fees 

,      .        ,  '  may  be  charged 

if  otherwise  competent,  may  be  admitted  to  the  schools  jJSesrtain 
of  said  district  with  the  consent  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion  upon   such   terms    as   said   board   may   prescribe; 
provided,  that  the  authority  to  charge  tuition  for  non-  Proviso, 
resident  pupils  conferred  by  this  section  shall  not  apply 
to   non-resident  pupils  transferred   to   any   district  by 
.an  order  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

111.  Whenever  in  any  district  there  shall  be  children 
living  remote  from  the  school-house,  the  board  of  educa- 
tion of  such  district  may  make  rules  and  contracts  for 
the  transportation  of  such  children  to  and  from  school. 
Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  pro- 
hibit a  board  of  education  from  making  contracts  for 
the  transportation  of  children  to  a  school  in  an  adjoining 
district  when  such  children  shall  be  transferred  to  said 
•district    by    order    of    the    County    Superintendent    of 
Schools,  or  when  any  children  shall  attend  school  in  a 
district  other  than  that  in  which  they  shall  reside  by 
virtue  of  an  agreement  made  by  the  respective  boards 
of  education. 

112.  Any  child  living  remote  from  any  public  school  TJausgf f>r of 
in  the  district  in  which  he  or  she  shall  reside  shall  be 
allowed  to  attend  a  public  school  in  an  adjoining  dis- 
trict with  the  consent  of  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools,   which   consent   shall   be   in   writing,    and   one 

-copy  thereof  filed  with  the  district  clerk  or  secretary 
of  the  board  of  education  of  the  district  in  which  such 
child  shall  reside,  and  one  copy  filed  with  the  district 
clerk  or  secretary  of  the  board  of  education  of  the  dis- 


48  SCHOOL  LAW. 

trict  in  which  such  child  shall  attend  school;  and  in 
case  the  districts  shall  not  be  in  the  same  county,  the 
written  consent  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 
of  each  county  shall  be  obtained. 

Tuliisattend°r  ^^'  ^nv  ^Hd  wno  shall  have  completed  the  course 
Sfhe?°°adein  °^  S^U^J  -pursued  in  the  schools  in  the  district  in  which 
adjoining  dis-  ne  or  she  shall  reside  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  board 
of  education  of  said  district  and  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion of  a  district  in  which  he  or  she  shall  desire  to 
attend  school,  be  admitted  to  a  school  of  higher  grade 
in  said  last-mentioned  district.  Said  boards  of  educa- 
tion shall  determine  the  amount  to  be  paid  for  the 
education  of  such  child,  and  the  board  of  education  of 
the  district  in  which  such  child  shall  reside  shall  issue 
an  order  for  said  amount,  signed  by  the  president  and 
district  clerk  or  secretary  of  the  board  of  education,  in 
favor  of  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  the  school 
district  in  which  such  child  shall  attend  school,  which 
order  shall  be  paid  by  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys 
of  the  first-mentioned  district  out  of  any  moneys  in 
his  hands  available  for  the  current  expenses  of  said 
district. 
Pupils  to  sub:  114.  Pupils  in  the  public  schools  shall  comply  with 

mit  to  authority 

of  teacher.  the  regulations  established  in  pursuance  of  law  for  the 
government  of  such  schools;  shall  pursue  the  prescribed 
course  of  study,  and  shall  submit  to  the  authority  of 
the  teacher.  Continued  and  willful  disobedience,  open 
defiance  of  the  authority  of  the  teacher,  the  use  of 
habitual  profanity  or  obscene  language  shall  be  good 
Penalty  for  in-  cause  for  suspension  or  expulsion  from  school.  Any 
property?**  pupil  who  shall  cut,  deface  or  otherwise  injure  any 
school-house,  furniture,  fences,  out-buildings  or  other 
property  of  the  school  district  shall  be  liable  to  suspen- 
sion and  punishment,  and  the  parents  or  guardians  of 
such  pupil  shall  be  liable  for  damages  to  the  amount 
of  the  injury;  said  amount  to  be  collected  by  the  board 
of  education  in  any  court  having  jurisdiction,  together 
with  the  costs  of  said  action. 

pupnhseeriposed  115.  A  board  of  education  may  exclude  from  school 
di8ce0aseamaybe  anJ  teacher  or  pupil  who  shall  not  have  been  duly 
s?hoS!edfrom  vaccinated,  unless  such  teacher  or  pupil  shall  present  a 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

certificate  signed  by  a  regularly  licensed  physician,  that 
such  teacher  or  pupil  is  an  unfit  subject  for  vaccination. 
Xo  teacher  or  pupil  who  shall  be  a  member  of  a  house- 
hold in  which  a  person  shall  be  ill  with  small  pox, 
diphtheria,  scarlet  fever,  whooping  cough,  yellow  fever, 
typhus  fever,  cholera,  or  measles,  or  of  a  household 
exposed  to  contagion  as  aforesaid,  shall  attend  any  public 
school  during  such  illness,  nor  until  the  board  of  educa- 
tion shall  have  been  furnished  with  a  certificate  from 
the  board  of  health,  or  from  the  physician  attending 
such  person,  or  from  a  medical  inspector,  certifying 
that  all  danger  of  communicating  such  disease  by  such 
teacher  or  pupil  has  passed. 

116.  In  case  any  pupil  enrolled  in  a  public  school 
shall  be  found  to  be  unvaccinated,  whose  parents  shall  cases- 
be,  in  the  judgment  of  the  board  of  education,  unable 

to  pay  for  the  vaccination  of  such  pupil,  the  district 
clerk  or  secretary  of  the  board  of  education  may  give 
to  said  pupil  a  permit  to  appear  before  any  regularly 
licensed  physician  to  be  vaccinated,  and  such  physician, 
on  presenting  said  permit  with  his  certificate  appended 
thereto  that  the  vaccination  has  been  by  him  successfully 
performed,  shall  receive  from  the  township,  city,  incor- 
porated town,  borough  or  other  municipality  in  which 
said  pupil  shall  reside  the  sum  of  fifty  cents. 

117.  Whenever  the  board  of  health  of  any  township.  School 

J  '  closed  in 

city,  incorporated  town,  borough  or  other  municipality  ot 
shall  declare  any  epidemic  or  cause  of  ill-health  to  be 
so  injurious  or  hazardous  as  to  make  it  necessary  to  close 
any  or  all  of  the  public  schools  in  such  township,  city, 
incorporated  town,  borough  or  other  municipality,  said 
board  shall  immediately  serve  notice  on  the  board  of 
education  of  the  school  district  situate  in  said  township, 
city,  incorporated  town,  borough  or  other  municipality 
that  it  is  desirable  to  close  said  school  or  schools.  Upon 
receipt  of  such  notice  such  board  of  education  may  close 
the  schools  under  its  control,  or  such  of  them  as  maj 
be  designated  by  the  board  of  health,  and  said  schools 
shall  not  be  reopened  until  said  board  of  education  shall 
be  satisfied  that  all  danger  from  said  epidemic  or  cause 
of  ill-health  has  been  removed. 

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50  SCHOOL  LAW. 


118'  Children  who  shall  have  never  attended  any 
public  or  private  school  may  be  admitted  to  a  public 
school  during  the  ten  days  immediately  following  the 
opening  of  said  school  for  the  fall  term,  during  the  first 
five  days  in  January  and  April  respectively,  and  at  no 
other  time  except  by  a  majority  vote  of  all  the  members 
of  the  board  of  education  of  the  school  district  in  which 
said  school  shall  be  situate. 

£  exclude?  to       119-  ^°  child  between  the  age  of  four  and  twenty 
acZintof01  on  Jears  sha11  be  excluded  from  any  public  school  on  ac- 
count of  his  or  her  religion,  nationality  or  color.     A 
member  of  any  board  of  education  who  shall  vote  to 
exclude  from  any  public  school  any  such  child,  on  account 
of  his  or  her  religion,  nationality  or  color  shall  be  guilty 
Penalty.  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less 

than  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars,  or  by.  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail,  work- 
house or  penitentiary  of  the  county  in  which  the  offense 
shall  have  been  committed  for  not  less  than  thirty  days 
nor  more  than  six  months,  or  by  both  fine  and  imprison- 
ment in  the  discretion  of  the  court,  (a) 


AETICLE   X. 

SCHOOL-HOUSES. 

12°-  Eacn  school  district  shall  provide  suitable  school 
facilities  and  accommodation  for  all  children  residing 
in  the  district  and  desiring  to  attend  the  public  schools 
Penalty.  therein.     Whenever  such  school  facilities  or  accommo- 

dation shall  be  inadequate  and  unsuited  to  the  number 
of  pupils  attending  or  desiring  to  attend  such  schools, 
the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  transmit  to 
the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  the  school  district 
an  order  directing  him  to  withhold  from  the  district  all 
moneys  in  his  hands  to  the  credit  of  such  school  district 
received  from  the  state  appropriation  or  from  the  state 
school  tax  until  suitable  facilities  or  accommodation 

(a)  It  is  unlawful  for  the  school  trustees  to  exclude  children  from  any 
public  school  on  the  ground  that  they  are  of  the  negro  race.  Pierce  v. 
Union  District,  17  Vr.  76. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  51 

-shall  be  provided,  and  shall  notify  the  board  of  educa- 
tion of  such  district  of  his  action  with  the  reasons 
therefor.  Such  order  shall  not  take  effect  until  approved 
in  writing  by  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction, and  said  approval  shall  state  when  said  order 
shall  take  effect. 

121.  Each  board  of  education  shall  provide  at  least  outhouses. 
two  suitable  and  convenient  outhouses  or  water-closets 

for  each  of  the  school-houses  under  its  control.  Said 
•outhouses  or  water-closets  shall  be  entirely  separated 
each  from  the  other  and  shall  have  separate  means  of 
.access.  Said  outhouses  and  said  water-closets,  if  de- 
tached from  the  school-house,  shall  be  separated  by  a 
substantial  close  fence  not  less  than  seven  feet  in  height. 
The  board  of  education  shall  have  said  outhouses  and 
water-closets  kept  in  a  clean  and  wholesome  condition. 
The  question  of  raising  the  amount  needed  to  carry  Taxforout- 
into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be 
submitted  to  the  legal  voters  of  the  school  district,  but 
the  board  of  education  shall  notify  the  assessor  or 
assessors  and  collector,  by  notice  signed  by  the  president 
and  district  clerk  or  secretary,  of  the  amount  needed 
for  such  purpose,  and  such  amount  shall  be  assessed, 
levied  and  collected  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same 
manner  as  other  special  school  taxes  are  assessed,  levied 
and  collected. 

122.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  Plans  for  school 

•  »  n,  houses  to  be 

shall   procure   architects    plans    and    specifications    for  ^te^erfn 
school  buildings,  and  full  detail  working  plans  therefor,  tendent. 
In  the  preparation  of  such  plans  due  regard  shall  be 
given  to  proper  heating,  lighting,  ventilating  and  other 
hygienic   requirements.      Said   plans   and   specifications 
shall  be  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Education  and 
shall  be  loaned  to  any  district  desiring  to  erect  a  new 
school  building. 

123.  In  order  that  due  care  may  be  exercised  in  the  Approval  of 
heating,  lighting,  ventilation  and  other  hygienic  condi-  Eoa?dofe<?uca- 
tions  of  public  school  buildings  hereafter  to  be  erected, 

all  plans  and  specifications  for  any  such  proposed  school 
building  shall  be  submitted  to  the  State  Board  of  Edu- 
cation for  suggestion  and  criticism  before  the  same  shall 


52 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Doors  to  open 
outwardly. 


Requirements 
in  erecting 
school-houses. 


Light. 


Ventilation. 


Height  of  ceil- 
ings. 

Staircases. 


be  accepted  by  the  board  of  education  of  the  district 
in  which  it  is  proposed  to  erect  such  building. 

124.  In  any  school-house  of  two  or  more  stories  in< 
height,  the  doors  leading  from  the  class-rooms  to  the 
corridors  and  from  said  corridors  to  the  street  or  to  the 
ground  surrounding  such  school-house  shall  open  out- 
wardly.    All  swing-doors  shall  have  plate-glass  windows 
of  suitable  dimensions. 

125.  In  order  that  the  health,  sight  and  comfort  of 
the  pupils  may  be  properly  protected  all  school-houses 
hereafter  erected  shall  comply  with  the  following  con- 
ditions : 

I.  Light  shall  be  admitted  from  the  left,  or  from  the 
left  and  rear  of  class-rooms,   and  the  total  light  area 
must,  unless  strengthened  by  the  use  of  reflecting  lenses,, 
equal  at  least  twenty  per  centum  of  floor  space; 

II.  School-houses  shall  have  in  each  class-room  at  least 
eighteen  square  feet  of  floor  space  and  not  less  than  two- 
hundred  cubic  feet  of  air  space  per  pupil.     All  school 
buildings  shall  have  an  approved  system  of  ventilation 
by  means  of  which  each  class-room  shall  be  supplied 
with  fresh  air  at  the  rate  of  not  less  than  thirty  cubic 
feet  per  minute  for  each  pupil; 

III.  All  ceilings  shall  be  at  least  twelve  feet  in  height ; 

IV.  All  stairs,  except  cellar  stairs,  shall  be  not  less 
than  four  feet  in  width   and   shall  have  intermediate 
landings.     The  several  flights  of  stairs  shall  be  enclosed 
by  brick  walls  or  by  partitions  of  slow  burning  construc- 
tion, and  without  open  well  holes.     The  risers  of  stairs- 
shall  not  exceed  seven  and  one-half  inches  in  height, 
and  the  treads  shall  be  at  least  ten  inches  in  width, 
exclusive  of  the  projecting  nosings; 

V.  Every  school-house  having  eight  rooms  shall  have 
two  flights  of  stairs  of  not  less  than  four  feet  in  width, 
or,  in  lieu  thereof,  one  flight  of  stairs  situated  near  the 
center  of  the  building,  not  less  than  six  feet  in  width ; 

VI.  Every  school  building  having  more  than  eight 
and  less  than  sixteen  rooms,  shall  have  two  flights  of 
stairs  not  less  than  five  feet  in  width; 

VII.  Every  school-house  having  sixteen  or  more  rooms 
shall  have  three  flights  of  stairs  not  less  than  four  feet 


SCHOOL  LAW.  53 

in  width,  or,  in  lieu  thereof,  two  complete  flights  of 
stairs  not  less  than  six  feet  in  width; 

VIII.  Every  building  more  than  one  story  in  height  construction  of 
shall  have  metal  ceilings;  wooden  ceilings  painted  white 
or  some  light  tint  or  plastered  ceilings  on  metal  lath. 


AETICLE  XL 

UNION    GRADED    SCHOOLS. 

126.  Whenever  the  boards   of   education  of   two   or  Establishment 
more  adjoining  school  districts  shall  deem  it  for  the  best  graded  schools, 
interests  of  the  children  that  said  districts  shall  unite  in 
establishing    and    maintaining    a    union-graded    school, 
each  of  said  boards  shall  cause  its  secretary  or  district 
clerk  to  insert  in  the  notices  calling  any  annual  or  special 
meeting  of  the  legal  voters,  a  notice  that  the  question  of 
establishing  such  union-graded  school  will  be  submitted 
•at  such  meeting.     The  legal  voters  shall  vote  by  ballot,  Election,  how 

,    .    %_  *  conducted. 

and  at  any  such  meeting  the  secretary  thereof  shall  keep  a 
poll-list  of  the  legal  voters  voting  on  such  question,  and  a 
tally-sheet  of  the  ballots  as  counted  by  the  tellers.  Said  Jjjgf^  rin. 
ballots,  poll-list  and  tally-sheet,  which  tally-sheet  shall  be  tendent. 
signed  by  the  chairman  of  the  meeting  and  by  said  secre- 
tary, shall  be,  by  said  secretary,  within  five  days  after  the 
date  of  said  meeting,  transmitted  to  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  in  a  sealed  package  endorsed  with  the 
name  of  the  district  of  the  county  in  which  it  shall  be  situ- 
ate, and  the  date  of  the  meeting.  Said  secretary  shall  also 
transmit  to  said  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  a  cer- 
tificate of  the  result  of  such  vote  signed  by  said  chairman 
and  secretary.  In  case  the  districts  shall  be  situate  in 
different  counties,  said  secretary  shall  transmit  the  bal- 
lots and  other  papers  hereinbefore  described  to  the 
^County  Superintendent  of  Schools  of  the  county  in 
which  the  district  shall  be  situate,  and  shall  transmit 
a  duplicate  of  the  certificate  of  the  result  of  such  vote 
to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  of  the  county 
in  which  the  other  district  or  districts  shall  be  situate. 
If  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  ascertain 


54  SCHOOL  LAW. 

from  such  certificates  that  the  total  number  of  votes  cast 
in  each  of  said  districts  in  favor  of  establishing  such 
union-graded  school  exceeds  the  total  number  of  votes- 
cast  in  each  district  against  the  same,  he  shall  imme- 
diately notify  each  of  the  boards  of  education  of  the 
result  of  such  vote, 
constitution  of  127.  Whenever  two  or  more  districts  shall  have  voted 

board  of  educa- 
tion, to  establish  a  union-graded  school   as  provided  in   the 

preceding  section,  the  board  of  education  of  such  union- 
graded  school  shall  be  constituted  as  follows: 

I.  If  two  districts  shall  unite  for  the  purpose  afore- 
said, the  board  of  education  of  each  of  said  districts 
shall  appoint  two  of  its  members  as  members  of  the- 
board  of  education  of  said  union-graded  school; 

II.  If  three  or  more  districts  shall  unite  for  the  pur- 
pose aforesaid,  the  board  of  education  of  each  of  said 
districts  shall  appoint  one  of  its  members  as  aforesaid. 

Report  to  128.  Each  board  of  education  shall  notify  the  County 

county  supenn-  . 

tendentofap-    Superintendent  01  Schools  of  the  names  of  the  persons 

pointmentof  .  L     . 

board  of educa-  so  appointed  as  aforesaid,  and  the  persons  so  appointed 
shall  continue  to  be  members  of  the  board  of  education 
of  such  union-graded  school  until  the  second  Tuesday 
in  April  next  after  their  terms  of  office  as  members  of 
their  respective  boards  of  education  shall  have  expired, 
and  their  successors  shall  be  appointed  on  or  before  the 
first  day  of  said  April  in  like  manner  and  for  a  like  term. 
The  members  so  appointed  as  aforesaid  shall  continue 
to  act  as  members  of  the  boards  of  education  in  their 
respective  districts. 

Removal  of  129.  A  member  of  a  board  of  education  of  a  union- 

member  or 
officer.  graded  school  or  the  president  or  secretary  thereof,  may 

be  removed  in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  in  this 
act  for  the  removal  of  an  officer  or  member  of  a  board 

Vacancy,  how  of  education.  Any  vacancy  in  such  board  shall  be  filled 
by  the  board  of  education  of  the  district  which  by  reason 
of  such  vacancy  has  not  its  full  representation  on  the 
board  of  education  of  such  union-graded  school. 

corporate  130.  Each  board  of  education  appointed  as  provided 
in  this  article  shall  be  a  body  corporate,  and  shall  be 
known  as  and  called  "the  board  of  education  of  the 
union-graded  school  of  the  school  district  of  - 

o 


SCHOOL  LAW.  55 

(here  insert  the  name  of  the  district),  in  the  county 

of "   (here  insert  the  name  of  the  county  in 

which  the  school-house  shall  be  located). 

131.  The  board   of  education   of  each   union-graded 
school  shall  forthwith,   after  its  first  appointment,  or-  turn, 
ganize  by  the  election  of  one  of  its  members  as  president 
and  a  secretary,  who  shall  serve  until  the  second  Tuesday 

in  April  next  after  their  election,  on  which  day  and 
annually  thereafter  said  board  shall  organize  by  the 
election  of  the  officers  aforesaid.  Said  board  shall 
appoint  a  suitable  person  as  custodian  of  school  moneys 
of  said  union-graded  school  and  shall  fix  his  salary  and 
term  of  office.  Said  custodian  shall  have  the  powers 
and  be  charged  with  the  duties  conferred  or  imposed  by 
this  act  upon  custodians  of  school  moneys  of  a  school 
district,  and  shall  give  such  bonds  in  such  amounts  and 
with  such  sureties  as  said  board  shall  direct,  but  said 
bonds  shall  be  for  a  sum  not  less  than  the  amount  an- 
nually apportioned  to  such  school  by  the  County  Super- 
intendent of  Schools. 

132.  The  board  of  education  of  a  union-graded  school  Powers  of 

board  of  educa- 

shall  have  power:  tion. 

I.  To  purchase,  sell  and  improve  school  grounds,  to 
erect,  lease,  enlarge,  improve,  repair  or  furnish  school  property, 
buildings;    to  borrow  money  with  or  without  mortgage 

and  to  raise  money  by  taxation  for  any  such  purpose, 
or  to  pay  debts  incurred  therefor,  or  for  the  current 
expenses  of  the 'schools;  provided,  that  for  any  such 
acts  it  shall  have  the  previous  authority  of  a  majority 
vote  of  the  board  of  education  of  each  of  the  districts 
uniting  in  establishing  said  union-graded  schools; 

II.  To  take  and  condemn  land  and  other  property  for  condemn  land 

,        ,  ,,  •Till  for  school  pur- 

School  purposes,  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  regu-  poses. 

lating  the  ascertainment  and  payment  of  compensation 
for  property  condemned  and  taken  for  public  use.  If 
either  party  shall  feel  aggrieved  by  any  proceedings  and 
awards  thereunder,  said  party  may  appeal  in  the  manner 
provided  by  law  for  appeals  from  such  proceedings  and 
awards;  provided,  that  before  beginning  any  proceed- 
ings for  taking  and  condemning  land  and  other  property 
the  board  of  education  shall  have  the  authority  of  a 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

majority  vote  of  the  board  of  education  of  each  of  the 
districts  uniting  in  establishing  said  union-graded  school ; 

HI.   To  determine,  subject  to  the  approval  of  a  ma- 
J 

traded  schools,  jority  of  the  board  of  education  of  each  of  the  districts 
uniting  in  establishing  such  union-graded  school,  the 
amount  needed  to  purchase  land  for  school  purposes; 
to  erect  and  furnish  a  suitable  school-house,  or  to  lease 
a  school-house  already  erected,  and  for  the  current  ex- 
penses of  such  school,  in  which  term  shall  be  included 
principals',  teachers',  janitors'  and  medical  inspectors' 
salaries,  fuel,  text-books,  school  supplies,  flags,  school 
libraries,  salaries  of  secretary  and  custodian  of  school 
moneys,  insurance  and  the  incidental  expenses  of  such 
school.  The  amount  of  money  thus  determined  shall 
be  certified  by  the  secretary  of  said  board  to  the  assessors 
ef  the  several  taxing  districts  in  which  the  school  dis- 
tricts uniting  as  aforesaid  shall  be  situate,  and  said 
assessors  shall  apportion  said  amount  among  said  several 
taxing  districts  in  the  proportion  that  the  ratables  of 
each  bear  to  the  total  ratables  of  all  said  taxing  dis- 
tricts, and  the  amount  thus  apportioned  to  each  taxing 
district  shall  be  assessed,  levied  and  collected  in  the 
same  manner  and  at  the  same  time  as  other  school  taxes 
shall  be  assessed,  levied  and  collected  therein,  and  shall 
be  paid  by  the  several  collectors  to  the  custodian  of 
school  moneys  of  such  union-graded  school  on  or  before 
the  fifth  day  of  January  next  after  the  same  shall  be- 
come due  and  payable  to  said  several  collectors; 
Be*L  IV.  To  adopt  an  official  seal  by  which  all  its  official 

acts  may  be  authenticated; 

V.  To  appoint  a  supervising  principal  and  fix  his 
salary,  which  principal  shall  be  also  the  supervising 
principal  of  the  schools  in  the  districts  uniting  in  estab- 
lishing such  union-graded  school.  Such  supervising 
principal  shall  hold  a  state  or  a  first-grade  county  cer- 
tificate. 

Apportionment      133.  In  making  the  annual  apportionment  of  school 
moneys  to        moneys,   the   County   Superintendent   of    Schools   shall 

union-graded  J    '  ,  1111 

•cboois.  make  an  apportionment  to  such  union-graded  school  on 

the  same  basis  and  in  the  same  manner  as  to  the  school 
districts  in  the  county  in  which  such  union-graded  school 


SCHOOL  LAW.  57 

shall  be  situate.  If  the  districts  which  shall  have  united 
in  establishing  such  union-graded  school  shall  be  situate 
in  different  counties,  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools  of  each  of  such  counties  in  making  his  annual 
apportionment  of  school  moneys  shall  apportion  to  such 
union-graded  school  three  hundred  dollars  for  the  super- 
vising principal  and  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  teacher 
employed  therein  during  the  year  preceding  that  for 
which  said  apportionment  shall  be  made,  and  in  addition 
thereto  shall  apportion  an  additional  sum  on  the  basis 
of  the  aggregate  days  attendance  of  all  pupils,  residents 
of  such  county  who  shall  have  attended  such  union- 
graded  school  during  the  year  preceding  that  for  which 
said  apportionment  shall  be  made. 

134.  The  board  of  education  of  a  union-graded  school 
shall  have  all  the  powers  and  be  charged  with  all  the  tion. 
duties  conferred  or  imposed  upon  a  board  of  education 

in  a  township  school  district,  so  far  as  the  same  are 
not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  article. 

135.  Each   union-graded   school   shall   be   under   the  supervision  of 

.  union-graded 

supervision  and  control  of  the  County  Superintendent  schools, 
of  Schools  of  the  county  in  which  the  school-house  shall 
be  situate. 

136.  In  case  a  board  of  education  of  a  union-graded 
school  shall  decide  that  it  is  necessary  to  raise  money 
to  purchase  land  for  school  purposes  and  for  the  erection 
and  furnishing  of  a  school-house  or  for  the  purchase 
thereof  by  the  issue  of  bonds,  it  shall  notify  the  board 
of  education  of  each  of  the  districts  which  shall  have 
united  in  establishing  such  union-graded  school  of  the 
amount  needed,  the  number  of  bonds  to  be  issued,  the   . 
denomination    of    such    bonds,    the    maximum    rate    of 
interest  thereon,    and   the  time   or   times   of   payment. 
Eaeh  of  such  boards,  upon  receiving  such  notification, 
shall  forthwith  call  a  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  its 
district,  and  shall  submit  to  said  meeting  the  question 
of  issuing  such  bonds  as  proposed  by  the  board  of  educa- 
tion of  such  union-graded  school,  and  the  district  clerk 
of  thf  board  of  education  of  each  of  said  districts  shall 
transmit  to  the  board  of  education  of  such  union-graded 
school  certified  copies  of  the  record  of  the  proceedings 


58 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Approval  of 
proceedings  by 
attorney-gen- 
eral. 


Description  of 
bonds. 


Payment  of 
bonds  and  in- 
terest. 


of  the  board  of  education  and  of  the  legal  voters  of 
said  district  thereon.  If  from  said  certified  copies  it 
shall  appear  that  a  majority  of  the  legal  voters  present 
at  such  meeting  in  each  of  said  districts  shall  have 
voted  in  favor  of  the  issue  of  such  bonds,  the  secretary 
of  the  board  of  education  of  such  union-graded  school 
shall  transmit  such  certified  copies  together  with  cer- 
tified copies  of  the  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the- 
board  of  education  of  such  union-graded  school  concern- 
ing the  issue  of  such  bonds  to  the  Attorney-General  for 
his  approval  of  the  legality  of  all  said  proceedings,  and 
shall  file  duplicate  certified  copies  of  the  record  of  all- 
such  proceedings  with  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  and,  upon  the  approval  thereof  by 
the  Attorney-General,  said  bonds  may  be  issued  and  sold 
by  said  board. 

137.  Bonds  authorized  as  provided  in  this  article  shall 
be  issued  in  the  corporate  name  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion of  the  union-graded  school;    shall  bear  interest  at 
a  rate  not  exceeding  six  per  centum  per  annum,  payable- 
semi-annually ;    shall  be  signed  by  the  president  of  said 
board  and  attested  by  the  secretary;    shall  bear  the  seal 
of  said  board,  and  shall  have  coupons  attached  for  cur- 
rent payment  of  interest,  which  coupons  shall  be  signed 
by  the  secretary,  and  shall  be  numbered  to  correspond 
to  the  bonds  to  which  they  shall  be  severally  attached. 
Bonds  so  issued  shall  be  numbered  and  a  proper  registry 
thereof  kept  by  the  secretary,  and  may  be  sold  at  public 
or  private  sale  for  the  best  obtainable  price,  but  not- 
less  than  par.     Such  bonds  when  issued  shall  be  a  lien 
upon   the  real   estate   situate   in   each   of   the   districts 
which    shall   have   united    in   establishing   such    union- 
graded  school  and  the  personal  estates  of  the  inhabitants 
of  each  of  said  districts,  as  well  as  the  property  of  each 
of  said  districts,   and   said   estates   and  property  shall 
be  liable  for  the  payment  of  the  same. 

138.  Whenever  bonds  shall  have  been  issued  by  the 
board  of  education  of  a  union-graded  school,  the  secre- 
tary of  such  board  shall,  each  and  every  year,  certify 
to  the  assessors  of  the  several  taxing  districts  in  which 
the  several  school  districts  which  shall  have  united  in 


SCHOOL  LAW.  59 

establishing  such  union-graded  school  shall  be  situate, 
the  amount  which  shall  become  due  during  such  year 
for  principal  and  interest  of  such  bonds.  The  amount 
so  certified  shall  be  apportioned  and  assessed  by  said 
assessors  in  the  same  manner  and  in  the  same  proportion 
as  taxes  for  the  current  expenses  of  such  union-graded 
school  shall  be  apportioned  and  assessed,  and  the  moneys 
so  assessed  shall  be  levied  and  collected  by  the  collectors 
of  the  several  taxing  districts,  and  the  said  collectors 
shall,  on  or  before  the  fifth  day  of  January  next  there- 
after, pay  the  full  amount  so  ordered  to  be  assessed, 
levied  and  collected  to  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys 
of  said  union-graded  school,  who  shall,  upon  receipt  of 
the  orders  of  said  board  of  education  (which  orders  shall 
.state  at  what  bank  said  principal  and  interest  are  pay- 
able), deposit  in  such  bank  the  sum  of  money  necessary 
to  pay  said  principal  and  interest  as  they  shall  become 
due  and  payable. 

AKTICLE  XII. 

KINDERGARTENS. 

139.  The  board  of  education  of  any  school  district  Agesofpupii& 

X-UV-L          1  •    J  1.1  i  •    J  in  kindergar- 

may  establish  a  kindergarten  school  or  a  kindergarten  tens, 
department  in  any  school  under  its  control,  and  shall 
admit  to  such  kindergarten  school  or  department  any 
child  over  the  age  of  four  and  under  the  age  of  seven 
years  who  shall  be  a  resident  of  the  district;    provided,  Proviso 
that  no  child  under  the  age  of  five  years  shall  be  ad- 
mitted to  any  public  school  unless  such  school  shall  be 
a  regularly  organized  kindergarten  school  or  shall  have  a 
kindergarten  department. 

140.  Every  teacher  in  a  kindergarten  school  or  depart-  Teachers  in 

in  til  •    -i  -i  •     i  •  ^  •  i    kindergartens 

ment  shall  hold  a  special  kindergarten  certificate,  issued  to  noi<f  special' 
either  by  the  State  Board  of  Examiners  or  the  board  of 
examiners  of  the  county  or  city  in  which  he  or  she  shall 
be  teaching. 

141.  The  expense  of  kindergarten  schools  or  depart-  Expenses  of 
ments  shall  be  paid  out  of  any  moneys  available  for  the  k 


60 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Age  of 


schools. 


Term. 


pils 

g 


Expenses  of 

evening 

schools. 


current  expenses  of  the  schools,  and  in  the  same  manner 
and  under  the  same  restrictions  as  the  expenses  of  the 
other  schools  or  departments  shall  be  paid. 

AETICLE  XIII. 

EVENING    SCHOOLS. 

142.  The  board  of  education  of  any  school  district 
may  establish  and  maintain  public  evening  schools  for 
the   instruction   of   persons   over   twelve   years   of   age 
residents  of  the  district,  and  unless  such  evening  schools 
shall  be  maintained  for  a  term  of  not  less  than  four 
months  in  each  year,  each  of  said  months  to  consist  of 
at  least  sixteen  evening  sessions  of  at  least  two  hours 
each,  said  district  shall  not  be  entitled  to  any  apportion- 
ment on  the  basis  of  the  number  of  teachers  employed 
in  such  schools  during  the  year  preceding  that  for  which 
the  apportionment  shall  be  made. 

143.  The  expenses  of  evening  schools  shall  be  paid 
out  of  any  moneys  available  for  the  current  expenses 
of  the  schools,  and  in  the  same  manner  and  under  the 
same  restrictions  as  the  expenses  of  day  schools  shall 
be  paid. 

AETICLE   XIV. 


Text-books  to 
be  furnished 
free  to  all 
pupils. 


Rules  for  text- 
books. 


TEXT-BOOKS    AND    SUPPLIES. 

144.  Text-books  and  school  supplies  shall  be  furnished 
free  of  cost  for.  use  by  all  pupils  in  the  public  schools. 
Every  school   district   shall   raise   and   appropriate   an- 
nually in  the  same  manner  as  other  school  moneys  shall  be 
raised    and    appropriated    in    such    district   an    amount 
sufficient  to  pay  for  such  text-books  and  supplies. 

145.  Every  board  of  education  shall  make  rules  for 
the  safe  keeping  and  proper  care  of  text-books,  and  shall 
keep  an  account  of  all  moneys  expended  by  it  for  such 
text-books  and  supplies,  and  shall  report  the  same  in 
its  annual  financial  statement. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  61 


146.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  County  Superin- 
tendent  of  Schools,  member  of  a  board  of  education, 
teacher  or  any  person  officially  connected  with  the  public 
schools  to  be  agent  for,  or  to  be  in  any  way  pecuniarily 
or  beneficially  interested  in  the  sale  of  any  text-books, 
maps,  charts,  school  apparatus  or  supplies  of  any  kind 
or  to  receive  compensation  or  reward  of  any  kind  for 
any  such  sale,  or  for  unlawfully  promoting  or  favoring 
the  same.  A  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  Penalty. 
shall  be  punishable  by  the  removal  from  office  or  by 
revocation  of  certificate  to  teach. 


AETICLE  XV. 

COMPULSORY    EDUCATION. 

147.  Every  parent,  guardian  or  other  person  having 
the  legal  control  of  a  child  between  the  ages  of  seven 
and  twelve  years,  shall  send  such  child  to  public  day  yeare- 
school  each  day  while  such  school  shall  be  in  session, 
unless  such  child  shall  be  excused  from  such  attendance 

by  the  board  of  education  of  the  school  district  in  which 
such  parent,  guardian  or  other  person  shall  reside,  upon 
its  being  shown  to  the  satisfaction  of  said  board  that 
the  bodily  or  mental  condition  of  such  child  is  such  as 
to  prevent  his  or  her  attendance  at  school,  or  that  such 
child  is  being  taught  in  a  private  school  or  at  home  in 
such  branches  as  are  usually  taught  in  public  schools 
to  children  of  its  age,  or  for  other  good  cause  deemed 
sufficient  by  said  board  of  education. 

148.  Any  parent,  guardian  or  other  person  having  the 

legal  control  of  any  child  who  shall  fail  to  comply  with  section  147. 
the  provisions  of  section  one  hundred  and  forty-seven 
of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor 
more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense,  or  by 
imprisonment  for  not  less  than  five  days  nor  more  than 
ninety  days  for  each  offense,  which  said  fine  shall  be 
paid  to  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  the  school 
district  in  which  the  offense  shall  have  been  committed 


62  SCHOOL  LAW. 

for  the  use  of  the  public  schools  therein.  Such  offense 
shall  be  prosecuted  upon  the  complaint  of  the  board 
of  education  of  said  school  district,  through  its  truant 
officer,  or  other  person  designated  by  it,  before  any 
magistrate  having  the  power  to  commit  in  any  city, 
township,  incorporated  town  or  borough. 
Employment  of  149.  No  child  under  the  age  of  fifteen  years  shall  be 

•children  under  . 

fifteen  pro-        employed  by   any  person,   company   or   corporation   to 

tain  cases.  labor  in  any  business  whatever,  unless  such  child  shall 
have  attended  within  twelve  months  immediately  pre- 
eeding  such  employment  some  public  or  private  school. 
Such  attendance  shall  be  for  five  days  or  four  evenings 
every  week  during  a  period  of  at  least  sixteen  weeks 
which  may  be  divided  into  two  terms  of  eight  consecutive 
weeks  each,  so  far  as  the  arrangement  of  school  terms 
will  permit 

Truant  officers.  150.  The  board  of  education  of  each  school  district 
may  appoint,  and  may  remove  at  pleasure,  one  or  more 
persons  to  be  designated  as  truant  officers,  and  may  fix 
their  compensation,  prescribe  their  duties,  not  incon- 
sistent with  the  provisions  of  this  article,  and  shall  make 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  performance  of  such  duties. 

Police  as  truant  151.  The  police  authorities  in  any  municipality  hav- 
ing an  organized  police  force  shall,  upon  the  written 
request  of  the  board  of  education  of  the  school  district 
situate  in  such  municipality,  detail  one  or  more  members 
of  said  police  force  to  act  as  truant  officers.  Any  police 
officer  so  detailed  shall  have  all  the  powers  granted  to 
truant  officers  under  the  provisions  of  this  article  as 
fully  as  if  appointed  as  such  truant  officer  by  the  board 
of  education.  Whenever  the  words  "truant  officer"  are 
used  in  this  article,  the  same  shall  apply  as  well  to  the 
person  or  persons  designated  under  section  one  hundred 
and  fifty,  as  to  those  designated  in  this  section. 

Definition  of         152.  Every  child  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  fifteen 

truancy.  » 

years  who  shall  be  repeatedly  absent  from  school,  or 
found  away  from  home  during  school  hours,  or  whose 
parent,  guardian  or  other  person  having  legal  control  is 
unable  to  cause  it  to  attend  school,  or  who  shall  be  ha- 
bitually a  truant  from  school,  or  who  shall  habitually 
wander  about  the  streets  and  public  places  of  any  munici- 


SCHOOL  LAW.  63 

pality  during  school  hours  having  no  lawful  business  or 
•occupation,  or  any  pupil  who  shall  be  incorrigible,  vicious 
-or  immoral  in  conduct  or  who  fails  to  comply  with  the 
provisions  of  sections  one  hundred  and  forty-nine,  one 
hundred  and  fifty-six  and  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  of 
this  act  shall  be  deemed  and  adjudged  to  be  a  disorderly 
person  and  proceeded  against  as  provided  in  section  one 
hundred  and  fifty-four  of  this  act. 

153.  Every  truant  officer  or  other  person  designated 
foy  a  board  of  education,  finding  any  child  between  seven 
and  fifteen  years  of  age  away  from  home  during  school 
hours,  and  who  shall  then  be  a  truant  from  school,  shall 
take  such  child  and  deliver  it  to  its  parent,  guardian  or 
other  person  having  legal  control,  or  to  the  teacher  of  the 
school  which  said  child  is  lawfully  required  to  attend. 
Said  truant  officer  or  other  person  shall  examine  into 
cases  of  children  or  pupils  coming  under  the  provisions 
of  section  one  hundred  and  fifty-two  of  this  act,  when 
requested  so  to  do  by  the  inspector  of  factories  and  work- 
shops or  by  the  board  of  education  of  the  district  for 
which  he  shall  have  been  appointed  or  detailed,  and  shall 
thereupon  warn  such  child  or  pupil,  its  parent,  guardian 
or  other  person  having  legal  control  of  such  child  or 
pupil  in  writing,  of  the  consequences  of  any  of  the  acts 
as  get  out  in  section  one  hundred  and  fifty-two,  if  per- 
sisted in,  and  shall  request  that  said  pupil  shall  improve 
its  conduct  or  said  child  attend  school  within  five  days 
from  serving  said  notice  in  writing,  whereupon  if  said 
parent,  guardian  or  other  person  having  the  legal  control 
of  said  child  or  pupil  shall  fail,  neglect  or  refuse  t© 
admonish  said  pupil  for  its  conduct,  or  fail,  neglect  or 
refuse  to  cause  said  child  to  attend  school  within  said 
period,  said  parent,  guardian  or  other  person  having  the 
legal  control  of  said  child  or  pupil  shall  be  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor  and  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
one  dollar  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  each 
offense,  or  by  imprisonment  of  not  less  than  five  days, 
nor  more  than  ninety  days  for  each  offense,  which  said 
fine  shall  be  paid  to  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys 
of  the  school  district  in  which  the  offense  shall  have 
been  committed  for  the  use  of  the  public  schools  therein. 


64  SCHOOL  LAW. 

Such  offense  shall  be  prosecuted  upon  the  complaint  of 
the  board  of  education  of  said  school  district,  through 
its  truant  officer,  or  other  person  designated  by  it,  before 
any  magistrate  having  the  power  to  commit  in  any  city, 

Proviso.  township,  incorporated  town  or  borough;  provided,  that 

if  such  parent,  guardian  or  other  person  shall  enter  inta 
a  bond  with  one  or  more  sureties  in  the  penal  sum  of 
one  hundred  dollars,  that  said  child  shall  attend  school 
within  five  days  thereafter  and  continue  to  attend  as- 
required  by  this  act,  said  punishment  shall  be  remitted, 
and  when  said  magistrate  is  satisfied  that  said  child 
regularly  attends  school  said  bond  may  be  discharged ; 

Proviso.  provided  further,  that  such  sentence  may  be  suspended! 

by  said  magistrate  if  he  shall  become  satisfied  that  said 
child  is  regularly  attending  school,  and  properly  deport- 

Proviso.  ing  himself ;  provided  further,,  that  such  parent,  guardian 

or  other  person  shall  have  all  the  rights  and  privileges 
assured  to  any  person  charged  or  convicted  of  a  mis- 
demeanor as  provided  in  an  act  entitled  "An  act  for 
the  punishment  of  crimes  [Revision  of  1898],"  approved 
June  fourteenth,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety- 
eight,  and  its  supplements  and  amendments. 

Arrest  of  154.  jn  the  case  of  the  offenses  set  out  in  section  one 

tnutQvi 

hundred  and  fifty-two  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  truant 

officer  or  other  person  designated,  when  requested  by  the 
board  of  education,  to  make  a  complaint  thereof  under 
oath  before  airy  magistrate  having  the  power  to  commit  in 
any  city,  township,  incorporated  town  or  borough  where 
such  offender  resides,  whereupon  said  magistrate  shall 
issue  his  warrant  directed  to  said  truant  officer  or  any 
constable  to  immediately  apprehend  such  child  so  com- 
plained of  and  bring  it  before  said  magistrate,  who,  upon 
conviction  of  said  child  of  the  offense  charged,  may  either 
direct  said  child  so  complained  of  to  be  delivered  to  its 
parents,  guardian  or  other  person  entitled  to  its  legal 
control,  or  to  the  teacher  of  the  class  in  the  school  at 
which  said  child  shall  or  ought  to  attend,  or  to  parole 
commit  tmant  said  child  or  pupil,  or  sentence  such  child,  if  over  eight 

to  institution.  '      •'  p  r\  TT  /• 

and  under  fourteen  years  of  age,  to  the  State  Home  for 
Boys  or  to  the  State  Home  for  Girls, 
tman? officer.         155-   Such  truant  officer  shall  report  promptly  every 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

such  arrest  and  the  disposition  made  of  such  arrested 
child  to  the  board  of  education  of  the  school  district 
where  said  child  shall  be  lawfully  required  to  attend 
school,  or  to  such  person  as  said  board  may  direct. 

156.  The  board  of  education  of  any  school  district 
may  establish  and  maintain  a  school  or  schools,  or  may 
set  apart  separate  rooms  in  a  public  school  building  for 
the  use,  restraint  and  instruction  of  children  between  the 
ages  of  seven  and  fifteen  years  who  shall  be  habitual 
truants  from  school,  or  who  shall  be  habitually  insub- 
ordinate or  incorrigibly  disorderly  during  their  attend- 
ance upon  such  school.     Such  school  or  room  shall  be 
known  as  a  parental  school. 

157.  Said  board  of  education  may  compel  any  such 
child  to  attend  such  parental  school  and,  with  the  con-  school, 
sent,  in  writing,  of  the  parent,  guardian  or  other  person 
having  legal  control  of  such  child,  may  cause  such  child 

to  be  restrained  and  instructed  therein  for  such  a  period 
and  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  said  board  of 
education  may  prescribe. 

158.  If  any  such  child  shall  not  attend  such  school,  p«naityforf«&. 
then  he  or  she  shall  be  proceeded  against  as  a  disorderly  parental 
person  as  set  out  in  sections  one  hundred  and  fifty-two 

and  one  hundred  and  fifty-four  of  this  act. 

159.  Any  parental  school  established  under  the  pro- 
visions  of  this  article  shall  be  maintained  as  other  public 
schools  shall  be  maintained  in  the  district  in  which  it 
shall  be  situate  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  the 
board  of  education  of  such  district  may  prescribe. 

160.  The  board  of  education  of  a  school  district  in 
which  there  shall  be  no  parental  school,  may  send  children 
who  shall  be  residents  of  such  school  district  and  who 
shall  be  habitual  truants  or  insubordinate  or  incorrigible 
as  defined  in  this  article,   to  a  parental  school  in  am 
adjoining  echool  district,   by  and  with  the  consent  of 
the  board  of  education  of  the  district  in  which   said 
parental  school  shall  be  situate.     Any  expense  incurred 
by  a  board  of  education  under  the  provisions  of  this 
section  may  be  paid  out  of  any  money  raised  by  special 
district  tax  for  the  current  expenses  of  the  school. 


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SCHOOL  LAW. 


AETICLE   XVI. 


SCHOOL    FUND. 


Trustees  of 
school  fund. 


Secretary  of 
board. 


Riparian  lands 
part  of  school 
fund. 


Income  from 
leases. 


Investment  of 
school  fund. 


161.  The  Governor,  the  Attorney-General,  the  Secre- 
tary  of    State,    the    State    Comptroller    and   the    State 
Treasurer  are  hereby  constituted  a  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  Fund  for  the  Support  of  Public  Schools  arising 
from  appropriations  heretofore  made  or  which  may  be 
hereafter  made  by  law,  or  which  may  arise  from  gift, 
grant,  bequest  or  devise,  which  board  shall  be  known  as 
"The  Trustees  for  the  Support  of  Public  Schools." 

162.  The  Secretary  of  State  shall  be  the  Secretary  of 
said  board.     He  shall  record  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for 
that   purpose   the   proceedings   of   said   board   and   the 
accounts  to  be  furnished  by  the  State  Treasurer  as  here- 
inafter directed. 

163.  All  lands  belonging  to  this  state  now  or  formerly 
lying  under  water  are  appropriated  for  the  support  of 
public  schools,  and  all  moneys  hereafter  received  from 
the  sales  of  such  lands  shall  be  paid  to  "The  Trustees 
for  the  Support  of  Public  Schools,"  and  shall  be  invested 
by  said  board,  and  shall  constitute  a  part  of  the  perma- 
nent school  fund  of  the  state. 

164.  All   leases   which   have   been   heretofore   made, 
or  which  shall  be  hereafter  made  of  such  lands,  shall 
be  held  by  "The  Trustees  for  the  Support  of  Public 
Schools"  as  a  part  of  the  principal  of  the  school  fund, 
and  the  income  arising  from  said  leases  shall  be  a  part 
of  the  income  of  said  school  fund. 

165.  Moneys  belonging  to  the  school  fund  shall  be 
invested  by  said  board  in  the  bonds  of  the  several  school 
districts  of  this  state,  or  in  the  bonds  of  the  United 
States,  or  of  this  state,  or  in  the  bonds  of  any  county, 
city,   incorporated  town,   township  or  borough  of  this 
state  the  total  indebtedness  of  which  shall  not  exceed 
in  the  aggregate  fifteen  per  centum  of  the  total  assess- 
able valuation  of  all  taxable  property  therein,  and  the 
interest  thereof  shall  be  a  part  of  the  income  of  said 


SCHOOL  LAW.  67 

school  fund.     The  income  of  said  school  fund  shall  be  Appropriations 

from  school 

used  for  the  support  of  public  schools,  the  payment  of  fund. 
the  salaries  of  the  County  Superintendents  of  Schools, 
the  payment  of  premiums  and  accrued  interest  on  bonds 
purchased  by  the  "Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Fund  for 
the  Support  of  the  Public  Schools/7  and  for  no  other  use 
•cr  purpose  whatsoever.  An  account  of  the  management  Annual  report 
of  said  fund  shall  be  laid  before  the  Legislature  with 
the  annual  statement  of  the  State  Treasurer's  accounts. 
No  compensation  shall  be  paid  to  said  trustees  or  treas- 
urer for  any  services  performed  in  pursuance  of  this 
article. 

166.  Said  board  shall  not  invest  any  part  of  the  prin-  Loans  on  mort- 
-cipal  or  interest  of  said  fund  in  bonds  secured  by  mort-  ucd. 

gage  on  lands  except  as  hereinafter  provided. 

167.  Said  board  shall  cause  foreclosure  proceedings  Foreclosure  of 
to  be  commenced  without  delay  whenever  the  interest 

•on  bonds  secured  by  mortgage  held  by  said  board  as 
part  of  the  school  fund  shall  remain  unpaid  for  the 
space  of  six  months ;  provided,  that  whenever  foreclosure  Proviso, 
proceedings  shall  have  been  commenced;  said  board  may, 
in  its  discretion,  discontinue  the  same  upon  the  payment 
of  accrued  interest  and  the  cost  of  such  proceedings. 

168.  Said  board  may  bid  for  and  purchase  any  lands  Purchase  prop- 

,         .r  /  ,  erty  at  fore- 

and  premises  exposed  to  sale  under  the  order  and  decree  closure  sale. 

of  any  court  for  the  payment  and  satisfaction  of  any 
mortgage  incumbrance  thereon  held  by  said  board,  and 
may  take  and  hold  title  to  the  lands  and  premises  so 
purchased  in  and  by  its  official  name  as  a  part  of  the 
principal  of  the  school  fund ;  provided,  that  said  board  Proviso, 
shall  not  bid  a  higher  price  for  such  lands  and  premises 
than  shall  be  sufficient  to  produce  the  amount  due  upon 
said  mortgage  incumbrance  and  costs.  The  taxed  costs  Payment  of 

-,.  to  ,  ,.  i         i         •/.  i     -,-,    i       taxed  costs. 

attending  such  proceedings  and  sale,  if  any,  shall  be 
paid  by  the  State  Treasurer  on  the  warrant  of  the  State 
Comptroller. 

169.  All  real  estate  now  held  by  "The  Trustees  for  saieofreai 
the  Support  of  Public  Schools,"  and  all  real  estate  that  e' 

may  be  hereafter  acquired  by  them  under  foreclosure 
proceedings  shall  be  sold,  either  at  private  or  public  sale, 


68  SCHOOL  LAW. 

at  such  times  and  at  such  prices  as  will,  in  the  judgment 
of  said  board,  be  for  the  best  interest  of  the  state.  Said 
board  may  advertise  such  properties,  either  at  private 
or  public  sale,  in  such  manner  as  to  it  shall  seem  judi- 
cious, and  the  proceeds  of  such  sale  shall  be  paid  into 
the  school  fund,  and  shall  be  invested  by  said  board  as 
other  moneys  of  said  fund  shall  be  invested.  Said  board 
may  loan  to  the  purchaser  of  any  said  real  estate,  one- 
half  of  the  amount  of  purchase-money,  the  same  to  be 
secured  by  bond  and  mortgage  on  the  premises  so  pur- 
chased. 

Annual  report.       170.  The  State  Treasurer  shall  make  annually  to  said 
board  on  the  first  day  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Legislature,  and  at  such  other  times  as  said  board  shall 
require,  a  statement  of  the  school  fund;  containing  an 
account  of  the  securities  belonging  thereto  with  the  dates 
of  investment,  their  values,  and  the  interest  arising  from 
each  class  of  securities,  together  with  an  account  of  the 
moneys  in  the  treasury  belonging  to  said  fund. 
Approprmuons       171.  There  shall  be  annually  apportioned  and  paid 
fund.  from  the  income  of  the  school  fund  for  the  support  of 

public  schools  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  If  the 
income  of  said  fund  shall  not  have  been  received  in  full,. 
or  shall  be  insufficient  for  such  appropriation,  the  sum 
necessary  to  make  up  the  deficiency  shall  be  drawn  from 
the  State  Treasury  on  the  warrant  of  the  State  Comp- 
troller, which  sum  so  drawn  as  aforesaid  shall  be  replaced 
from  the  income  of  said  school  fund  as  soon  as  the  same- 
shall  have  been  received. 

AKTICLE  XVII. 

STATE    SCHOOL    TAX. 

Appropriations  172.  Eor  the  purpose  of  maintaining  free  public 
schools  there  shall  be  appropriated  each  year  from  any 
moneys  in  the  State  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated 
such  sum,  not  less  than  one  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
as  may  be  determined  by  the  Legislature  in  the  annual 
appropriation  act;  which  sum  shall  be  apportioned 
among  and  paid  to  the  several  counties  in  the  proportion- 


SCHOOL  LAW.  69 

that  the  ratables  of  each  of  said  counties  shall  bear  to 
the  total  ratables  of  the  State  as  exhibited  by  the  latest 
abstract  of  ratables  filed  in  the  office  of  the  State  Comp- 
troller. In  addition  to  the  amount  so  determined  and  Rate  of  tax. 
appropriated,  a  State  school  tax  shall  be  annually 
assessed,  levied  and  collected  upon  the  taxable  real  and 
personal  property  in  the  State,  as  exhibited  by  the  latest 
abstract  of  ratables  from  the  several  counties  made  out 
by  the  several  boards  of  assessors  and  filed  in  the  office 
of  the  State  Comptroller.  Said  tax  shall  be  such  an 
amount  as  will  make,  when  added  to  the  amount  deter- 
mined and  appropriated  as  aforesaid,  a  sum  equal  to 
two  and  three-fourths  mills  on  each  dollar  of  valuation 
of  the  taxable  real  and  personal  property  in  the  State 
as  exhibited  by  the  last  abstract  of  ratables  from  the 
several  counties  made  out  by  the  several  boards  of  assess- 
ors and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  State  Comptroller,  which 
tax  shall  be  assessed,  levied  and  collected  at  the  same 
time  and  in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes  shall  be 
assessed,  levied  and  collected.  The  State  Comptroller  £y  BSe°coment 
shall  apportion  said  tax  and  appropriation  among  the  troller- 
several  counties  in  proportion  to  the  amount  of  taxable 
real  and  personal  estate  of  said  counties  respectively 
as  shown  by  the  abstract  of  ratables  as  aforesaid,  and  he 
shall  transmit  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  February  in 
each  year,  to  the  State  Board  of  Education,  a  statement 
•of  the  amount  of  said  tax  and  appropriation,  apportioned 
-as  aforesaid,  and  to  the  County  Collector  a  statement  of 
the  amount  of  said  tax  apportioned  to  and  payable  by 
said  county,  and  said  County  Collector  shall  lay  said 
statement  before  the  board  of  assessors  of  the  townships, 
cities,  incorporated  towns,  boroughs  and  wards  within 
his  county  at  its  next  annual  meeting,  and  said  board 
of  assessors  shall  thereupon  apportion  said  school  tax 
as  other  taxes  are  apportioned,  and  the  same  shall  be 
assessed,  levied  and  collected  according  to  law.  (a) 

— — „ 

(a)  The  board  of  assessors  In  apportioning  the  school  tax  among  the 
several  townships  In  a  county,  must  distribute  It  according  to  the  value 
of  the  property,  after  deducting  debts,  as  shown  by  the  duplicate  of 
the  assessors  of  the  several  townships  of  the  then  present  year,  and  not 
-of  the  preceding  year.  STcirm  v.  Cox,  9  Vr.  302. 


70 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Payment  of 
tax  to  state 
treasurer. 


Penalty  for 
failure  to  pay 
tax. 


173.  Every  County  Collector  shall  pay  to  the  State 
Treasurer  the  quota  of  the  state  school  tax  from  his 
county  within  twenty-five  days  after  the  same  shall  be- 
due  and  payable  to  him  by  the  several  collectors  and  other 
officers  authorized  by  law  to  collect  said  tax.  In  case- 
any  such  collector  or  other  officer  shall  fail  or  neglect 
to  pay  to  the  County  Collector  the  full  amount  of  state 
school  tax  due  from  his  taxing  district  within  fifteen 
days  after  said  tax  shall  have  become  due  and  payable 
to  said  County  Collector,  said  County  Collector  shall 
give  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  written 
notice  of  such  failure  or  neglect,  and  said  County  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  shall  withhold  from  every  school 
district  in  said  taxing  district,  the  full  amount  appor- 
tioned to  it  out  of  the  reserve  fund  for  the  support  of 
the  school  or  schools  situate  within  said  taxing  district,, 
and  said  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  making- 
the  next  apportionment  of  school  moneys,  shall  reap- 
portion  the  amount  of  the  reserve  fund  so  withheld  among 
the  several  school  districts  in  his  county.  Said  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  also  withhold  from  the 
custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  any  school  district 
the  order  for  the  amount  of  money  apportioned  out  of 
the  state  school  tax  to  said  district,  until  the  collector  or 
other  officer  authorized  to  collect  taxes  in  the  taxing 
district  in  which  said  school  district  shall  be  situate 
shall  have  paid  to  the  County  Collector  the  full  amount 
of  the  state  school  tax  due  from  said  taxing  district,  and 
the  body  having  the  control  of  the  finances  of  any  town- 
ship, city,  incorporated  town,  borough  or  other  munici- 
pality from  which  shall  have  been  withheld  as  herein- 
before provided,  the  amount  apportioned  out  of  the 
reserve  fund  for  the  support  of  schools  in  any  school 
district  situate  in  such  township,  city,  incorporated  town, 
borough  or  other  municipality,  shall  forthwith  appro- 
priate to  said  school  district,  out  of  any  funds  under 
its  control,  a  sum  equal  to  the  amount  so  withheld,  and 
in  case  there  shall  be  no  funds  available  for  such  purposer 
the  body  having  control  of  the  finances  of  such  munici- 
pality shall  borrow  and  appropriate  a  sum  sufficient  for 


SCHOOL  LAW.  71 

such  purpose,  and  shall  place  the  amount  so  borrowed 
in  the  next  annual  tax  levy,  (a) 

174.  Ten  per  centum  of  the  full  amount  of  the  state 
school  tax  annually  raised  shall  be  known  as  a  reserve 
fund,  and  shall,  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  Feb- 
ruary in  each  year,  be  apportioned  among  the  several 
counties  by  the  State  Board  of  Education  equitably  and 
justly  according  to  its  discretion.     The  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction  shall,   on  or  before  the 
fifteenth  day  of  January  next  ensuing  said  apportion- 
ment, draw  an  order  on  the  State  Comptroller  in  favor 
of  each  County  Collector  for  ninety  per  centum  of  the 
amount  of  the   state  school  tax  paid  by   said   County 
Collector  to  the  State  Treasurer,  and  said  County  Col- 
lector shall   apply  for   and  be   entitled  to   receive   the 
amount  of  said  order   as   soon   as   said  order  shall  be 
received  by  him.     The  State  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  shall  also  draw  his  order  in  favor  of  each 
County  Collector  for  such  portion  of  the  reserve  fund 
as  shall  have  been  apportioned  to  his  county  as  afore- 
said, which  order  shall  be  payable  when  the  total  amount 
of  said  reserve  fund  shall  have  been  received  by  the 
State  Treasurer. 

175.  The  State  Comptroller  shall  draw  his  warrant  comptroller  to 

r  .  draw  warrants 

on  the  State  Treasurer  in  favor  of  the  County  Collector  in  favor  of 

»     i       county  col- 

of  each  county  for  the  portion  of  the  income  of  the  lectors. 
State  School  Fund,  of  the  state  appropriation  and  state 
school  tax  to  which  said  county  shall  be  entitled,  when- 
ever such  County  Collector  shall  present  orders  for  the 
same  drawn  by  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction. 

176.  The  County  Collector  of  each  county  shall  receive  f^o^hoid 
and  hold  in  trust  that  part  of  the  state  appropriation  money  in  trust, 
and  state  school  tax  apportioned  to  his  county,  and  shall 

pay  the  same  to  the  custodians  of  the  school  moneys  of 

(a)  1.  A  mandamus  will  be  allowed  to  compel  townships  to  pay  state 
and  county  taxes  out  of  first  tax  moneys  collected.  Veghte  v.  Township  of 
Bernards,  13  Vr.  338. 

2.  A  peremptory  mandamus  will  issue  for  the  payment  of  state  and 
county  taxes  by  a  city  where  it  has  collected  sufficient  money  to  pay  such 
taxes.  Shields  v.  Paterson,  26  Vr.  495. 


12 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


the  several  school  districts  of  his  county  on  the  orders 
of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  (a) 
eport  W-  Tne  board  of  education  of  each  school  district 
S£££  to  snall>  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  March  in  each 
•go*  superin-  year,  certify  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 
for  the  county  in  which  such  school  district  shall  be 
situate,  and  on  the  blanks  furnished  for  that  purpose 
by  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  the 
.  number  of  teachers  who  shall  have  been  employed  in  the 
schools  of  such  district  for  the  full  time  the  schools 
therein  shall  have  been  kept  open  during  the  then  cur- 
rent school  year,  and  the  number  of  teachers  who  shall 
have  been  employed  in  said  schools  for  a  portion  only 
of  said  year,  but  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  four 
months,  and  said  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 
shall,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  April  in  each  year, 
apportion  to  the  several  school  districts  of  the  said  county 
the  State  school  moneys  and  the  interest  of  the  surplus 
revenue  iri  the  following  manner  : 

I.  He  shall  apportion  to  each  district  the  sum  of  two 
cn?ornDbaSs  of  hundred  dollars  for  each  te*acher  that  shall  have  been 
employed  in  said  district  for  the  full  time  the  schools 


8S!ezs.of 


(a)  1.  A  county  collector  Is  not  required  or  permitted  to  exercise  any 
discretion  as  to  how  much  of  the  state  appropriation  the  several  town- 
ship collectors  in  the  county  are  entitled  to  receive  from  him.  The  ques- 
tion as  between  these  officers  is  settled  conclusively  by  the  order  of  the 
county  superintendent  of  public  schools.  The  notion  that  a  county  collector 
can,  in  any  case,  lawfully  reduce  the  amount  by  setting  up  some  counter- 
claim, whether  in  his  own  behalf  or  in  behalf  of  his  county,  and  whether 
against  the  township  collector,  personally,  Or  against  his  township  is 
neither  justified  by  the  language  nor  consistent  with  the  policy  of  our 
school  laws.  State,  Herder,  dc.,  v.  Collector,  dc.,  1  Vr.  363. 

2.  The  county  collector  of  each  county  shall  receive  and  hold  in  trust 
the  state  appropriation  for  public  schools  belonging  to  his  county,  and 
pay  the  same  to  the  collectors  of  the  several  townships  and  to  the  city 
treasurers  of  the  cities  of  his  county  only  on  the  orders  of  the  county 
superintendent,    and   is   responsible   for   these   moneys   if   otherwise   ex- 
pended.    School  taxes  are  to  be  levied  and  applied  for  the  fiscal  year 
beginning   September   1st   succeeding   the   assessment,    and   not   for   the 
preceding  year.     A  mandamus  will  be  allowed  for  the  payment  of  the 
county   superintendent's   order   for   the    state   appropriation   for   public 
schools,  where  the  moneys  have  been  applied  for  school  purposes  in  the 
preceding  year,  beginning  January  1st.    State,  ex  rel.  Board  of  Education, 
dc.,  v.  Sheridan,  dc.,  13  Vr.  64. 

3.  A  mandamus  will  be  granted  against  a  county  collector  in  favor  of 
a  township  collector  or  city  treasurer  to  compel  the  payment  of  school 
moneys  although  the  township  collector  or  city  treasurer  may  owe  the 
county  collector  money  for  state  or  county  taxes.    Board  of  Education  v. 
Sheridan,  16  Vr.  276. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  73 

therein  shall  have  been  kept  open  during  the  school  year 
preceding  that  for  which  the  apportionment  shall  be 
made;  the  sum  of  eighty  dollars  for  each  teacher  that 
shall  have  been  employed  therein  for  a  portion  only 
of  said  year,  but  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  four 
months;  the  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  to  each  district 
in  which  there  shall  have  been  employed  a  supervising 
principal  or  city  superintendent  of  schools,  who  shall 
have  devoted  his  entire  time  to  the  supervision  of  the 
schools  in  such  district,  but  if  two  or  more  districts  shall 
have  united  in  employing  a  supervising  principal  as 
aforesaid  the  six  hundred  dollars  apportioned  for  such 
principal  shall  be  apportioned  among  said  districts  in 
the  proportion  that  the  number  of  teachers  employed  in 
each  of  said  districts  shall  bear  to  the  total  number  of 
teachers  employed  in  all  of  the  districts  uniting  in  em- 
ploying said  supervising  principal ;  provided,  that  in  Proviso, 
making  such  apportionment  teachers  employed  in  even- 
ing schools  shall  be  regarded  as  employed  for  a  portion 
of  the  year  only,  but  no  apportionment  shall  be  made  for 
teachers  employed  in  an  evening  school  unless  the  board 
of  education  of  the  school  district  in  which  such  evening 
school  shall  have  been  maintained  shall  certify  that  said 
evening  school  has  been  maintained  at  least  four  months 
during  the  school  year  preceding  that  for  which  the 
apportionment  shall  be  made,  but  if  such  teachers  shall 
Lave  been  also  employed  in  the  day  schools  of  the  same 
districts,  the  apportionment  aforesaid  shall  be  made  for 
them  in  addition  to  any  amount  apportioned  for  them 
as  teachers  in  such  day  schools ;  provided  further,  that  Proviso, 
if  any  board  of  education  of  any  school  district  shall 
provide  proper  means  for  the  transportation  of  pupils 
in  accordance  with  the  provisions  contained  in  this  act, 
the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  in  making  his 
next  apportionment  and  every  apportionment  thereafter 
shall  apportion  to  such  district  the  sum  of  two  hundred 
dollars  for  -each  teacher  whose  services  shall  have  been 
dispensed  with  by  reason  of  substituting  transportation 
for  the  services  of  such  teacher  so  long  as  proper  trans- 
portation shall  be  provided;  provided  further,  that  in  Proviso, 
making  such  apportionment,  teachers  employed  in  a 


74 


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attendance. 


Balance  of 
state  school 
moneys  to  be 
paid  to  county 
collector. 


manual  training  school  or  department  in  a  district  re- 
ceiving an  appropriation  from  the  state  for  such  manual 
training  school  or  department,  and  who  shall  have  de- 
voted at  least  one-half  of  the  time  the  schools  in  said 
district  shall  have  been  kept  open  to  school  work  other 
than  manual  training,  shall  be  regarded  as  employed  for 
a  portion  of  the  year  only,  but  no  apportionment  shall 
be  made  for  teachers  who  shall  have  devoted  their  entire 
time  to  teaching  in  such  manual  training  school  or 
department ; 

H-  He  snaU  apportion  to  the  several  school  districts 
°^  ^ne  county  the  remainder  of  said  moneys  on  the  basis 
of  the  total  days'  attendance  of  all  pupils  enrolled  in  the 
public  schools  thereof  as  ascertained  from  the  last  pub- 
lished report  of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction.  For  the  purpose  of  such  apportionment  ait 
attendance  upon  an  evening  school  shall  be  counted  as 
one-half  day's  attendance.  If  a  school  in  any  district 
shall,  on  account  of  contagious  disease,  destruction  of  the 
school-house  by  fire  or  otherwise,  or  for  other  good  reason,, 
be  closed,  for  the  purpose  of  this  apportionment,  such 
school  shall  be  deemed  to  have  been  in  session,  and  the 
total  days'  attendance  upon  such  school  for  the  time  it 
shall  have  been  closed  as  aforesaid  shall  be  determined 
by  dividing  the  actual  total  days'  attendance  of  the  pupils, 
enrolled  in  such  school  by  the  number  of  days  such  school 
shall  have  been  actually  in  session,  and  multiplying  the 
quotient  thus  obtained  by  the  number  of  school  days  such 
school  shall  have  been  closed. 

178.  On  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  September  in 
each  year  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  each 
school  district  shall  pay  to  the  County  Collector  the  bal- 
ance of  moneys  apportioned  to  said  district  by  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  which  may  then  be  in  his 
hands  to  the  credit  of  said  district,  and  shall  report  forth- 
with to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  the  amount 
thus  paid  over,  and  the  County  Collector  shall,  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  October  in  each  year,  report  to 
the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  of  his  county 
the  amount  of  money  received  by  him  by  virtue  of  the 
provisions  of  this  section,  and  said  County  Superin- 


SCHOOL  LAW.  75 

tendent  of  Schools  shall  thereupon  re-apportion  such 
amount  among  all  the  school  districts  in  said  county. 
The  sum  thus  re-apportioned  shall  be  paid  immediately 
by  the  County  Collector  to  the  several  custodians  of  the 
school  moneys  of  said  districts  on  the  orders  of  the 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  and  shall  be  avail- 
able for  the  then  current  school  year.  The  sum  thus 
re-apportioned  to  any  district  shall  be  in  addition  to  the 
sum  apportioned  to  such  district  by  the  County  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  for  said  school  year ;  provided,  that  Proviso. 
the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  may,  for  good 
cause  shown,  allow  any  such  balance  to  remain  in  the 
hands  of  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  such 
district  to  the  credit  of  such  district,  and  such  balance 
may  thereafter  be  used  and  expended  by  the  board  of 
education  of  such  school  district  for  the  purpose  of  pay- 
ing teachers'  salaries  and  fuel  bills,  or,  by  and  with  the 
written  consent  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools, 
for  the  improvement  of  school-houses  and  grounds,  the 
purchase  of  school  furniture,  or  for  any  other  purpose 
connected  with  the  schools  of  such  district. 


AKTICLE  XVIII. 


DISTRICT    TAX. 

179.  The  legal  voters  of  each  township,  incorporated  Dgwc ttax  for 
town  or  borough  school  district  may,  at  any  annual  or  Poses- 
special  meeting  of  said  legal  voters, (a)  by  the  vote  of  a 
majority  of  those  present  raise  by  special  district  tax 

(a)  1.  When  an  assessment  is  ordered  by  the  inhabitants  of  a  school 
district  called  for  that  purpose,  to  sustain  the  assessment,  proof  must  be 
clear  that  ten  days'  legal  notice  of  the  time,  place  and  purposes  of  such 
meeting  had  been  given.  State  v.  Van  Winkle,  1  Butcher  73;  Canda 
Mfg.  Co.  v.  Woodbridge,  29  Vr.  134. 

2.  A  notice  inuicating  that  the  object  of  the  meeting  is  to  purchase 
a  school-house,  will  not  warrant  a  resolution  to  pay  for  a  house  already 
built.    Lamb  v.  Hurff,  9  Vr.  310. 

3.  A  special  meeting  of  the  voters  of  a  school  district  cannot  legally  be 
held  unless  ten  days'  notice  thereof  be  given.     Canda  Mfg.  Co.  v.  Town- 
ship of  Woodbridge,  29  Vr.  134. 

4.  Under  the  statutes  school  districts  are  political  organizations  pos- 
sessing the  power  of  taxation.     Landis  v.  Ashworth,  28  Vr.  509. 

5.  For  definition  of  legal  voters,  see  section  86. 


76 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Certificate  to 
assessor. 


such  sum  or  sums  as  a  majority  of  said  legal  voters 

present  at  such  meeting  may  agree  upon  for  any  or  all 

Purposes  for      of  the  following  purposes :   to  enable  the  board  of  educa- 

which  tax  may     .  ' 

*>e  ordered,  tion  to  purchase  or  take  and  condemn  land  101  school 
purposes;  to  build,  enlarge,  repair  or  furnish  a  school- 
house,  or  to  pay  a  debt  incurred  therefor ;  for  industrial 
schools,  for  manual  training,  and  for  the  current  expenses 
of  the  schools,  in  which  term  shall  be  included  prin- 
cipals', teachers',  janitors'  and  medical  inspectors'  sala- 
ries, fuel,  text-books,  school  supplies,  flags,  transportation 
of  pupils,  tuition  of  pupils  attending  schools  in  other 
districts  with  the  consent  of  the  board  of  education, 
school  libraries,  compensation  of  the  district  clerk,  of 
the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  and  of  truant  officers ; 
truant  schools,  insurance  and  the  incidental  expenses  of 
the  schools.  In  case  any  money  shall  be  ordered  to  be 
raised  by  special  district  tax,  the  district  clerk  shall  make 
out  and  sign  a  certificate  thereof,  (a)  under  oath  or  affir- 
mation that  the  same  is  correct  and  true,  and  deliver  the 
same  to  the  assessor  of  the  taxing  district  in  which  such 
school  district  shall  be  situate,  and  shall  send  a  duplicate 
of  said  certificate  to  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools.  Said  assessor  shall  assess  on  the  inhabitants  of 
the  school  district  and  their  estates,  and  the  taxable 
property  therein,  in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes  shall 
be  assessed,  and  the  collector  of  such  taxing  district  shall 
levy  and  collect  such  sum  of  money  as  shall  have  been 
ordered  to  be  raised  by  the  legal  voters  in  the  manner 

(a)  1.  The  sworn  certificate  of  the  clerk  to  the  assessor  must  specify 
the  amount  to  be  raised  for  each  purpose ;  that  the  notices  were  posted 
In  "at  least  seven  public  places  in  said  district,"  and  all  other  facts 
necessary  to  show  that  the  law  has  been  complied  with. 

2.  The  affidavit  must  verify  all  the  material  facts  set  forth  In  the  cer- 
tificate.    State  v.  Eardcastle,  2  Dutclier  143,  3  Dutcher  551 ;    Winsor  v. 
Donahay,  1  Vr.  404  ;  Banghart  v.  Sullivan,  7  Vr.  89 ;   Trustees  v.  Padde*, 
15  Vr.  151 ;    Quaid  v.  Trustees,  &c.,  20  Vr.  607. 

3.  It  is  essential  to  the  validity  of  the  certificate  of  district  clerk 
that  it  set  forth  that  due  notice  has  been  given  of  the  amount  of  money 
proposed  to  be  raised  at  the  district  meeting.   Slack  v.  Palmer,  10  Vr.  250. 

4.  The  certificate  to  the  assessor  must  show  how  the  money  ordered  to 
b«  raised  is  to  be  apportioned,  and  that  the  apportionment  was  made  by 
the  district  meeting.  Duryea  v.  Greenleaf,  5  Vr.  441 ;   Banghart  v.  SulU- 
van,  7  Vr.  89  ;    Corrigan  v.  Duryea,  11  Vr.  266 ;    Trustees  v.  Padden, 
15  Vr.  151. 

5.  The  certificate  to  the  assessor  must  state  what  the  notice  given  of 
the  meeting  was,  and  when  and  where  the  notices  were  put  up.    Quaid  v. 
Trustees,  20  Vr.  607. 


Assessment. 


Collection. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  7T 

aforesaid,  and  shall  pay  the  same  to  the  custodian  of 
the  school  moneys  of  the  school  district  as  is  in  this  act 
provided,  and  for  collecting  said  tax,  said  collector,  except 
such  as  receive  a  salary  in  lieu  of  fees,  shall  receive  three- 
fourths  of  one  per  centum  of  the  amount  of  said  tax 
collected  by  him,  said  compensation  to  be  paid  by  the 
township  committee  or  other  governing  body  of  the 
municipality  wherein  said  tax  shall  be  collected.  In  Payment  of  tax. 
case  the  full  amount  of  the  district  school  tax  shall  not 
have  been  collected,  said  collector  shall  pay  to  said  custo- 
dian the  full  amount  of  said  tax  out  of  any  moneys  in 
his  hands,  except  moneys  received  from  the  County  Col- 
lector on  the  order  of  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  and  any  amount  advanced  as  aforesaid  shall  be 
paid  to  said  collector  out  of  said  district  school  tax  when 
collected;  provided,  that  when  there  shall  be  no  funds  Proviso, 
in  the  hands  of  said  collector  available  for  such  purpose, 
the  township  committee,  common  council  or  other  body 
having  control  of  the  finances  of  the  municipality  in 
which  such  school  district  shall  be  situate,  shall  borrow 
and  appropriate  a  sum  sufficient  for  such  purpose;  pro-  Proviso. 
vided  further,  that  when  any  meeting  shall  be  held  as 
aforesaid  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  such  meeting  to  order 
a  greater  sum  of  money  raised  by  special  tax  than  shall 
have  been  mentioned  and  designated  in  the  notices  call- 
ing such  meeting,  (a) 

180.  At  any  annual  or  special  meeting  when  money  vote  to  be  by 
shall  be  ordered  raised  for  school  purposes  by  special 
district  tax  or  by  the  issue  of  bonds  the  legal  voters  shall 

(o)  1.  The  resolution  passed  at  the  district  meeting  must  direct  the 
particular  purpose,  which  must  be  one  of  the  purposes  in  the  act,  and 
must  be  contained  in  the  notice.  If  money  is  voted  for  more  than  one 
purpose,  the  resolution  must  specify  the  amount  apportioned  to  each. 
Cochrane  v.  Garrabrant,  3  Vr.  444 ;  Banyhart  v.  Sullivan,  1  Vr.  89 ; 
Corriyan  v.  Duryea,  11  Vr.  266  ;  Schomp  v.  Cole,  22  Vr.  277. 

2.  A  resolution  to  raise  money  to  build 'and  furnish  a  school-house  is 
not  bad  because  the  amount  to  be  used  for  building  and  the  amount  for 
furnishing  are  not  separately  stated,     Stackhouse  v.  School  District  43, 
Sussex  Co.,  23  Vr.  291. 

3.  A  resolution  to  sell  an  old  school-house,  passed  at  the  same  meeting 
that  it  was  resolved  to  raise  money  to  build  a  new  house,   is  illegal  if 
the  notice  calling  the  meeting  does  not  state  that  it  would  be  a  subject 
for  consideration.    Stackhouse  v.  School  District  43,  Sussex  Co.,  23  Vr.  291. 

4.  The  purchase  of  land  and  erection  of  a  school-house  includes  fencing 
and  grading  the  lot,   and  supplying  the  school  property   with   drinking 
water.    Chamberlain  v.  Cranltury  Board  of  Education,  29  Vr.  347. 


78  SCHOOL  LAW. 

vote  by  ballot.  The  chairman  of  the  meeting  shall  ap- 
point two  tellers  who  shall  receive  and  count  the  ballots 
in  his  presence.  The  secretary  of  the  meeting  shall 
keep  a  poll-list  and  shall  record  therein  the  name  of  each 
person  voting,  and  shall  also  keep  a  tally-sheet  of  the 
Report  to  votes  as  counted.  The  tally-sheet  shall  be  signed  by 
tendent.up  a  the  chairman  and  tellers,  and  said  tally-sheet,  poll-list 
and  ballots  shall  be  placed  by  the  secretary  in  a  sealed 
package,  indorsed  with  the  name  of  the  district,  the  name 
of  the  county  in  which  the  district  shall  be  situate,  and 
the  date  on  which  said  election  shall  have  been  held,  and 
said  package,  together  with  a  statement  of  the  results 
of  such  election,  signed  by  the  chairman  and  secretary, 
shall,  within  five  days  after  the  date  of  said  meeting,  be 
forwarded  by  said  secretary  to  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools,  and  the  same  shall  be  preserved  by 
him  for  one  year. 

AETICLE  XIX. 

CUSTODIAN    OF    SCHOOL    MONEYS. 

Custodian  of         181.  In  each  school  district  there  shall  be  a  custodian 

school  moneys.      -        ,       ,  1.1.11  •  j    i.   u    • 

of  school  moneys  who  shall  receive  and  hold  in  trust 
all  school  moneys  belonging  to  such  school  district, 
whether  received  from  the  state  appropriation,  state 
school  tax,  district  tax,  appropriation,  or  from  other 
sources,  and  shall  pay  out  the1  same  only  on  orders  signed 
by  the  president  and  district  clerk  or  secretary  of  the 
orders,  how  board  of  education.  Each  order  shall  specify  the  object 
for  which  it  shall  be  given,  and  shall  be  made  payable 
to  the  order  of  and  shall  be  indorsed  by  the  person 
entitled  to  receive  the  amount  named  therein ;  provided, 
that  in  the  payment  of  teachers7  salaries  a  pay-roll, 
certified  by  the  president  and  district  clerk  or  secretary 
of  the  board  of  education,  stating  the  names  of  the 
teachers  and  the  amount  to  be  paid  to  each,  may  be 
delivered  to  the  custodian  of  school  moneys,  accompanied 
by  one  order  or  warrant,  drawn  to  his  order,  for  the 
full  amount  of  said  pay-roll,  in  which  case  said  custodian 
shall  deliver  to  said  district  clerk  or  secretary  individual 


SCHOOL  LAW.  79 

checks  payable  to  the  order  of  said  teachers.  Said  custo- 
dian shall  pay  over  the  balance  of  school  funds  remain- 
ing in  his  hands  to  his  successor  in  office.  He  shall  keep 
in  the  book  provided  for  that  purpose  a  record  of  the 
sums  received  and  paid  out  by  him.  At  the  close  of  the  Report  of  custo- 
school  year  he  shall  transmit  to  the  board  of  education 
of  the  district  a  report  showing  the  amounts  received 
and  disbursed  by  him  for  school  purposes  during  said 
year,  and  shall  file  a  duplicate  of  such  report  with  the 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools. (a) 

182.   The  collector,  or  other  person  designated  by  law  collector  or 

r,     ,  .    .     treasurer  to  be 

as  the  custodian  of  the  moneys  belonging  to  the  munici-  custodian, 
pality  in  which  a  school  district  shall  be  situate,  shall  be 
the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  such  district,  and  compensation, 
shall  receive  such  compensation  as  the  township  commit- 
tee, common  council  or  other  governing  body  of  such 
municipality  shall  determine,  which  compensation  shall 
be  paid  by  said  township  committee,  common  council, 
or  other  governing  body  from  the  funds  of  the  township, 
incorporated  town,  borough,  city  or  other  municipality, 
and  the  bonds  given  by  said  collector  or  other  person  Bonds, 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duty  as  such  officer, 
shall  be  held  to  cover  and  secure  the  faithful  performance 
of  his  duty  as  custodian  of  school  moneys  and  the  bonds- 
men thereon  shall  be  liable  therefor.    In  case  the  term  of  TO  continue  as 

custodian  until 

omce  of  any  such  collector  or  other  person  shall  expire  be-  end  of  school 
fore  the  close  of  the  school  year,  he  shall  remain  and  con- 
tinue to  be  the  custodian  of  school  moneys  until  the  close 
of  the  then  current  school  year,  and  his  bondsmen  shall 
remain  and  be  legally  bound  for  the  faithful  performance 
of  his  duties  as  such  custodian  until  the  final  settlement 
of  his  accounts.  Nothing  in  this  article  shall  be  con-  Governing 

j  .    .  j,  .  .  .  body  of  munici- 

strued   as  giving  to  the  township   committee,   common  paiitynotto 

•  n  .-i  -          i      i  /.  .    .       -,.        have  control  of 

council  or  other  governing   body  of   any  municipality  school  moneys. 

(a)  1.  A  mandamus  will  be  granted  to  compel  a  township  collector  to 
pay  the  balance  of  school  moneys  to  his  successor.  M  Inzer  v.  Disprove, 
13  Vr.  141. 

2.  An  order  of  the  district  clerk,  which  specifies  the  object  for  which 
It  was  given  without  any  designation  of  the  yearly  taxes  out  of  which  it 
shall    be   payable,    is   a   sufficient   voucher    for    the    township    collector. 
Zimmerman  v.  Mathe,  20  Vr.  45. 

3.  The  township  collector  paying  out  school  moneys  on  statutory  orders 
Is  not  responsible  for  the  application  the  school  trustees  have  made  of 
the  money.     Zimmerman  v.  Mathe,  20  Vr.  45. 


80  SCHOOL  LAW. 

I    any  control  over  moneys  belonging  to  the  school  district 
I    in  the  hands  of  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of 
:    said  district,   but  said  moneys   shall  be  held  by  such 
custodian  in  trust,  and  shall  be  paid  out  by  him  only 
on  orders  legally  issued  and  signed  by  the  president  and 
district  clerk  or  secretary  of  the  board  of  education.   Any 
ordinance,  by-law  or  resolution  of  a  township  committee, 
common  council  or  other  governing  body  of  any  munici- 
pality attempting  to  control  such  moneys,  or  which  shall 
in  any  way  prevent  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys 
of  the  school  district  from  paying  the  orders  of  the  board 
of  education  as  and  when  they  shall  be  presented  for 
payment  shall  be  absolutely  void  and  of  no  effect,  (a) 
Board  of  edu-         183.  Whenever  in  any  school  district  there  shall  be 

cation  may  ap-  . 

point  custodian  two  or  more  collectors  or  other  persons  entitled  to  be 

in  certain  *  ,      *       i  •  ,      -, .        . 

cases.  custodians  of  school  moneys  in  such  district,  the  board 

of  education  may  appoint  a  suitable  person  as  custodian 
of  school  moneys  of  said  district,  and  may  fix  his  salary 
and  term  of  office.  Such  custodian  shall  give  bonds 
for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties  in  such  amount 
and  with  such  sureties  as  said  board  shall  direct,  but 
such  bonds  shall  be  for  a  sum  not  less  than  the  amount 
apportioned  to  said  district  by  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools.  Until  the  appointment  of  a  custodian 
of  school  moneys  by  the  board  of  education,  the  collector 
or  other  person  residing  in  the  municipality  situate  in 
such  school  district  having  the  largest  amount  of  taxable 
property  shall  be  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  such 
school  district. 

*awetoScusto-         184.  The  collector  or  treasurer  of  each  municipality 
dian.  in  wnich  a  school  district  shall  be  situate,  shall  pay  to 

the  custodian  of  the  schools  moneys  of  such  school  dis- 
trict the  amount  ordered  to  be  assessed,  levied  and  col- 


(a)  1.  The  common  council  has  no  control  over  school  funds,  and  a 
resolution  directing  the  treasurer  to  retain  a  portion  of  the  school  fund 
and  apply  it  to  the  payment  of  certain  special  assessments  against  school 
property,  is  a  nullity.  Board  of  Education  v.  Town  of  Union,  23  Vr.  69. 

2.  Money  raised  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  an  officer  for  a  specific  pur- 
pose cannot  be  lawfully  applied  to  any  other  purpose.  HoboJcen  v.  Irwin, 
5  Dutcher  65. 

3.  A  township  committee  cannot  lawfully  expend  for  other  purpose* 
than  those  of  education  the  money  raised  or  appropriated  for  a  school 
fund. 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


81 


School  orders  " 
to  draw  interest 
in  certain 


lected  in  such  municipality  for  the  use  of  the  public 
schools  therein  exclusive  of  the  state  school  tax,  on  the 
requisition  or  requisitions  of  the  board  of  education. 

185.  Whenever  there   shall  have  been   established   a  sinking  tuna., 
sinking  fund  for  the  payment  of  school  bonds  and  there 

is  no  officer  or  body  designated  by  law  as  the  custodian 
of  the  funds  belonging  to  such  sinking  fund,  the  custodian 
of  the  moneys  of  the  corporation  which  shall  have  issued 
such  bonds  shall  be  the  custodian  of  the  securities  and 
moneys  belonging  to  such  fund,  and  the  bondsmen  on 
his  bonds  as  such  custodian  shall  be  liable  for  the  safe- 
keeping of  said  fund. 

186.  Whenever  any  order  for  payment  of  the  current 
expenses  of  a  public  school  shall  be  drawn  and  issued 
by  any  board  of  education  on  the  custodian  of  the  school 
moneys  of  such  district,  and  there  shall  be  no  funds  in 
the  hands  of  such  custodian  to  pay  the  same,  such  order 
shall  bear  legal  interest  until  such  time  as  said  custodian 
shall  have  funds  to  pay  the  same,  of  which  fact  he  shall 
give  public  notice,  whereupon  said  interest  shall  cease. 

187.  If  any  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  any 
school  district  shall  fail  to  make  his  report  to  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  on  or  before  the  first  day 
of  August  in  any  year,  he  shall  forfeit  to  said  school 
district  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  for  each  day  thereafter 
until  his  report  shall  be  made.     Said  sum  shall  be  sued 
for  and  collected  by  the  district  clerk  or  secretary  of 
the  board  of  education  of  said  school  district  in  any  court 
of  competent  jurisdiction. 


Penalty  for 
failure  of  custo- 
dian to  report. 


AKTICLE  XX. 


SCHOOL    DISTRICT    BONDS. 

188.  The  legal  voters  of  any  township,  incorporated  District  may 
town  or  borough  school  district  may,  either  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  said  district  or  at  a  special  meeting  thereof 
called  for  that  purpose,  by  the  vote  of  a  majority  of  those 
present  (a)  authorize  the  board  of  education  to  issue  bonds 

(a)    See  section  180. 


82 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


?oPndsiption  °f    necessary  equipment,  (a) 


of  the  district  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  or  taking 
and  condemning  land  for  school  purposes,  or  building 
a  school-house  or  school-houses,  or  making  additions, 
alterations,  repairs  or  improvements  in  or  upon  any 
school-house  and  the  lands  upon  which  the  same  shall 
be  located,  and  of  purchasing  school  furniture  and  other 

Such  bonds  shall  be  issued  in 

the  corporate  name  of  the  district,  for  such  sums  and 
in  such  amounts  and  payable  at  such  times  as  the  legal 
voters  so  met  shall  direct,  with  interest  at  a  rate  not 
exceeding  six  per  centum  per  annum,  payable  half-yearly. 
Said  bonds  shall  be  signed  by  the  president  of  the  board 
of  education  and  attested  by  the  district  clerk,  shall  bear 
the  seal  of  the  district,  and  shall  have  coupons  attached 
for  current  payment  of  interest,  which  coupons  shall  be 
signed  by  the  district  clerk  and  shall  be  numbered  to 
correspond  to  the  several  bonds  to  which  they  shall  be 
severally  attached.  Bonds  so  issued  shall  be  numbered 
and  a  proper  registry  thereof  shall  be  kept  by  the  district 
sale  of  bonds,  clerk.  Such  bonds  may  be  sold  at  public  or  private  sale 
for  the  best  obtainable  price,  but  not  less  than  par. 

189.  Whenever  bonds  shall  have  been  legally  issued 
by  any  township,  incorporated  town  or  borough  school 
district,  and  the  same  shall  be  due  and  unpaid  or  out- 
standing, the  board  of  education  of  such  district,  when 
authorized  so  to  do  by  the  legal  voters  thereof  at  an 
annual  meeting  of  said  district,  or  at  a  special  meeting 
thereof  called  to  act  thereon,  shall  have  power  to  renew 
such  outstanding  bonds  or  any  part  thereof  by  the  issuing 
of  new  bonds  for  that  purpose,  in  the  name  and  under 
the  seal  of  said  district.  Such  bonds  shall  be  in  the 
general  form  of  the  bonds  theretofore  issued  by  said 
district,  shall  be  signed  by  the  president  of  the  board 
of  education  and  attested  by  the  district  clerk,  shall  bear 
the  seal  of  the  district,  shall  bear  interest  at  a  rate  not 

<a)  1.  It  is  necessary  that  it  shall  clearly  and  unequivocally  appear 
upon  the  face  of  proceedings  for  the  issue  of  bonds  of  a  school  district, 
that  the  bonds  are  to  be  issued  only  for  purposes  which  the  statute 
authorizes  them  to  be  Issued  for.  Chamberlain  v.  Craribury  Board  of 
Education,  29  Vr.  347. 

2.  Bonds  are  not  mere  mortgages,  but  are  evidences  of  legal  debts  of 
the  districts  issuing  them.  McCully  v.  Ridgefleld  Township,  February 
Term,  1899. 


Renewal  of 
bonds. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  83 

exceeding  six  per  centum  per  annum,  and  shall  be  issued 
for  such  sums  and  in  such  amounts  and  payable  at  such 
times  as  the  legal  voters  at  such  meeting  shall  direct 
Such  bonds  shall  have  coupons  attached  for  current  pay- 
ment of  interest,  which  coupons  shall  be  signed  by  the 
district  clerk  ancj.  shall  be  numbered  to  correspond  to  the 
several  bonds  to  which  they  shall  be  severally  attached. 
Bonds  so  issued  shall  be  numbered  and  a  proper  registry 
thereof  kept  by  said  district  clerk.  They  may  be  sold 
-at  public  or  private  sale  for  the  best  obtainable  price, 
but  not  less  than  par,  and  the  money  realized  from  such 
sale  shall  be  applied  to  the  taking  up  and  cancellation 
of  such  outstanding  bonds;  or  said  renewal  bonds  may 
be  exchanged  for  such  outstanding  bonds  on  an  equal 
basis  of  principal  and  interest,  and  the  bonds  so  redeemed 
shall  be  forthwith  canceled  by  the  board  of  education 
of  said  district. 

190.  Bonds  of  any  school  district  legally  issued  under  Bonds  ajien_on 
the  previsions  of  this  article  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  real  district, 
•estate  situate  in  said  district,  and  the  personal  estates  of 

the  inhabitants  of  the  said  district,  as  well  as  the  property 
of  said  district,  and  said  estates  and  property  shall  be 
liable  for  the  payment  of  the  same.  Whenever  bonds  shall 
be  authorized  to  be  issued  by  any  school  district  as  afore- 
said the  district  clerk  shall  transmit  certified  copies  of 
the  record  of  the  proceedings  authorizing  the  issuing  of 
such  bonds  to  the  Attorney-General  for  his  approval  of  ^approved  ty- 
the  legality  of  said  proceedings,  and  duplicate  copies  of  attorney-gen- 
such  record  shall  be  filed  with  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction. 

191.  Whenever    a    township,    incorporated    town    or  Notice  to 

•*•     '  QGCPflGAT 

borough  school  district  shall  have  ordered  and  authorized 
the  issue  of  bonds  and  the  same  shall  have  been  issued, 
the  district  clerk  shall,  each  and  every  year  issue  to  the 
assessor  of  the  taxing  district  in  which  such  school 
district  shall  be  situate  an  order  directing  him  to  assess 
upon  the  owners  of  property  in  said  taxing  district  and 
their  estates,  and  the  taxable  property  therein,  an  amount 
sufficient  to  pay  the  bond  or  bonds  maturing  in  such 
year,  together  with  the  interest  accruing  upon  all  the 
unpaid  bonds  of  such  district,  which  order  so  issued 


84 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


collection  of     as  aforesaid  shall  be  duly  executed  by  said  assessor.    The1 

tax  to  pay  «     i     «   i      V     •    i 

bonds  and  in-  moneys  so  assessed  shall  be  levied  and  collected  by  ther 
collector  of  said  taxing  district  who  shall,  on  or  before- 
the  fifth  day  of  January  next  thereafter,  pay  the  full 
amount  so  ordered  to  be  assessed,  levied  and  collected 
to  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  said  school 
district,  who  shall,  upon  the  receipt  of  the  orders  of  the 
board  of  education,  signed  by  the  president  and  attested 
by  the  district  clerk  (which  orders  shall  state  at  what 
bank  the  said  principal  and  interest  shall  be  payable), 
deposit  in  such  bank  the  sum  of  money  necessary  to  pay 
the  principal  and  interest  as  they  shall  become  due  and 
payable.  • 

Cancellation  of  192.  On  the  taking  up  of  outstanding  bonds,  or  on 
the  payment  of  bonds  of  any  township,  incorporated 
town  or  borough  school  district  the  board  of  education 
of  such  district  shall  forthwith  cancel  the  same,  and 
when  so  canceled  they  shall  be  deposited  in  the  office  of 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.* 

193.  The  district  clerk  or  secretary  of  a  board  of 
education  in  any  district  in  which  there  shall  be  any 
interest-bearing  school  debt  shall,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  August  in  each  year  report  to  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  the  amount  of  such 
debt  then  remaining  unpaid,  together  with  the  rate  of 
interest,  the  date  or  dates  on  which  the  bonds,  notes  or 
other  evidences  of  indebtedness  were  issued,  and  the  date 
or  dates  on  which  they  will  fall  due. 


Report  of  in- 
debtedness to 
state  superin- 
tendent. 


Name  of 
normal  school. 


ARTICLE  XXL 

STATE    MXRMAL    SCHOOL. 

194.  A  state  normal  school  shall  be  maintained  for 
the  purpose  of  training  and  educating  persons  in  the 
science  of  education  and  art  of  teaching.    The  name  and 
title  of  said  school  shall  be  "The  New  Jersey  State 
Normal  School."    Tuition  in  said  school  shall  be  free, 
state  board  to        195.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  have  the 
echooi.  control  and  care  of  the  buildings  and  grounds  owned 

and  used  by  the  state  for  a  normal  school  and  of  the 


SCHOOL  LAW.  85 

funds  for  the  support  thereof ;  shall  appoint  and  remove 
•the  principal,  teachers  and  other  employes  and  shall  fix 
their  salaries;  shall  purchase  and  furnish  text-books, 
apparatus  and  supplies  for  the  use  of  the  pupils;  shall 
prescribe  a  course  of  study  for  the  school;  shall  make 
rules  for  its  management  and  shall  grant  diplomas. 

196.  The   State   Board   of   Education   shall   appoint  Treasurer, 
some  suitable  person  treasurer  of  said  school  and  shall 

;fix  his  salary.  All  bills  and  charges  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  said  school,  except  as  hereinafter  provided, 
shall  be  paid  by  said  treasurer  upon  the  certificate  of 
«aid  board. 

197.  Said  board  shall  order  necessary  repairs  to  the  Repftirs 
grounds,  buildings  and  furniture  of  said  Normal  School, 

-and  shall  keep  said  buildings  and  furniture  insured. 
The  State  Comptroller  shall  upon  the  certificate  of  said 
board,  draw  warrants  upon  the  State  Treasurer  for  the 
payment  of  the  costs  thereof. 

198.  Each  county  shall  be  entitled  to  at  least  six  times  Number  of 
^s  many  pupils  in  the  school  as  it  shall  have  represen-  P 
tatives  in  the  Legislature.     In  case  any  county  shall 

not  have  the  full  number  of  pupils  to  which  it  shall 
be  entitled,  pupils  may  be  admitted  from  other  counties. 
Pupils  when  admitted  shall  sign  a  declaration  that  they 
intend  to  teach  in  the  public  schools  of  this  state  for  at 
least  two  years  immediately  after  being  graduated, 
unless  excused  temporarily  by  the  State  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, and  that  if  they  do  not  so  teach  they  will  refund 
to  the  state  the  cost  of  their  education. 

199.  The  State  Board  of  Education  may  maintain  a  Model  school, 
model  school  under  regular  teachers,   in  which  pupils 

of  the  Normal  School  shall  have  the  opportunity  to 
observe  and  practice  approved  methods  of  instruction 
and  discipline. 

AKTICLE  XXII. 

NEW    JERSEY    SCHOOL    FOE    THE    DEAF. 

200.  A  school  shall  be  maintained  for  the  purpose  of  Name  of 
draining  and  educating  deaf  children.     The  name  and  S< 


86 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Maintenance. 


title  ©f  said  school  shall  be  aThe  New  Jersey  School  for 
the  Deaf."     Tuition  in  said  school  shall  be  free. 

20L  The  State  Board  of  education  shall  have  the  con- 
scahooicoiltro1  °f  *r°l  and  care  °^  ^e  Buildings  and  grounds  owned  and' 
used  by  the  state  for  a  school  for  the  deaf  and  the  funds- 
for  the  support  thereof;  shall  appoint  and  remove  a 
superintendent,  teachers  and  other  employes  and  shall 
fix  their  salaries;  shall  purchase  furniture,  text-books,. 
school  apparatus  and  other  supplies;  shall  make  rules- 
and  regulations  for  the  government  and  management  of 
said  school  and  for  the  admission  of  pupils  thereto. 

202.  All  improvements,  additions  and  repairs  to  the- 
buildings  of  said  school  and  the  furnishing  thereof,  shall 
be  by  contract,  after  due  notice  given  and  specifications 
furnished.     The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  invite 
proposals  twice  in  each  year,  at  intervals  of  six  months,. 
for  supplying  said  school  with  dry  goods,  wearing  ap- 
parel, groceries,  provisions,  vegetables,  fuel,  illuminating 
material  and  all  other  articles  the  necessity  of  which  it 
shall  be  practicable  to  determine  as  being  needed  for 
the  then  ensuing  six  months.     The  standard  quality  of 
such   articles   shall   be   determined   by   the  board,    and 
standard  samples  of  non-perishable  articles  shall  be  kept 
in  the  office  of  the  superintendent  for  the  inspection  of 
bidders.     The  inviting  of  proposals  shall  be  advertised 
for  ten  consecutive  days  in  two  daily  newspapers  pub- 
lished in  the  city  of  Trenton,  which  advertisement  shall 
classify  the  articles  which  shall  be  grouped  in  each  bid^ 
and  shall  also  state,  as  nearly  as  practicable,  the  quantity 
needed,  and  that  said  goods  are  to  be  delivered  during' 
the  next  ensuing  six  months  as  ordered  by  said  super- 
intendent.    Said  board  shall  award  the  contract  to  the 
lowest   responsible   bidder   on   each   class   or   group   of 
articles  advertised  for,  and  shall  require  contractors  to- 
enter  into  suitable  bonds  for  the  faithful  performance 
of  said  contracts:    but  said  board  shall  have  the  right 
to  reject  any  and  all  bids  not  considered  by  it  to  be  in* 
the  interest  of  said  school 

203.  Deaf  persons  of  suitable  age  and  capacity  for 
instruction  who  shall  be  legal  residents  of  this  state  and' 
not  over  twenty-one  years  of  age,  shall  be  entitled  to- 


Qualifications 


SCHOOL  LAW.  87 

the  privileges  of  the  school  for  such  a  period  of  time,  not 
exceeding  fourteen  years,  as  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion shall  determine ;  provided,  that  whenever  more  per-  Proviso, 
sons  apply  for  admission  at  one  time  than  can  be  properly 
accommodated  in  said  school,  said  board  shall  so  appor- 
tion the  number  received  that  each  county  shall  be  repre- 
sented therein  in  the  ratio  of  its  deaf  population  to  the 
total  deaf  population  of  the  state.  Application  for  ad-  Application  for 
mission  into  said  school  shall  be  made  to  the  State  Board 
of  Education  by  a  parent,  guardian  or  friend  of  a  pro- 
posed pupil  in  such  manner  as  said  board  shall  direct, 
but  the  board  shall  require  such  application  to  be  accom- 
panied by  a  certificate  from  the  judge  of  the  inferior 
court  of  common  pleas  or  the  county  clerk  of  the  county, 
the  chosen  freeholder  or  clerk  of  the  township,  the  mayor 
or  other  executive  officer  of  the  city,  borough  or  other 
municipality  in  which  the  applicant  shall  reside,  setting 
forth  that  the  applicant  is  a  legal  resident  of  the  town- 
ship, city,  borough  or  other  municipality  claimed  as  his 
or  her  residence,  and  the  age,  circumstances  and  capacity 
of  such  proposed  pupil,  and  the  ability  or  inability  of 
such  proposed  pupil  or  of  his  or  her  parent  or  guardian 
to  pay  any  part  of  the  expense  of  the  care  and  mainte- 
nance of  such  proposed  pupil.  Whenever  said  board 
shall  be  satisfied  that  the  resources  of  any  person  apply- 
ing for  admission  to  such  school  or  being  a  pupil  thereat, 
or  those  of  his  or  her  parent  or  guardian  shall  be  suffi- 
cient to  defray  either  the  whole  or  a  part  of  the  expense 
of  maintaining  such  pupil,  said  board  may  require  such 
parent  or  guardian  to  pay  either  the  whole  or  such 
portion  of  the  annual  expense  of  maintaining  such  pupil 
as  it  shall  deem  just  and  equitable. 

204.  The    State   Board   of   Education   shall   appoint  Treasurer, 
some  suitable  person  treasurer  of  said  school  and  shall 
fix  his  salary.    All  bills  and  charges  for  the  maintenance 
of  said  school  shall  be  paid  by  said  treasurer  upon  the. 
certificate  of  said  board. 


88  SCHOOL  LAW. 


AKTICLE  XXIII. 

MANUAL  TRAINING  AND  INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL  FOR  COLORED 

YOUTH. 

205*   "Tlie   ^aimal  Training  and  Industrial   School 

scahooic°ntro1  °f  ^or  Colored  Youth"  (now  located  at  Bordentown)  shall 
be  hereafter  conducted  and  managed  by  the  State  Board 
of  Education,  which  board  shall  have  the  full  manage- 
ment and  control  thereof;  shall  have  the  care  and  charge 
of  the  buildings  and  property  thereof;  the  application 
and  expending  of  the  funds  provided  or  appropriated 
for  the  support  thereof;  the  appointment  and  removal 
of  a  principal,  teachers  and  other  employes;  the  fixing 
and  paying  of  their  salaries ;  the  power  to  prescribe  the 
studies  and  exercises  of  said  school  and  rules  for  its 
management,  and  for  the  admission  of  pupils  thereto. 
Tuition  in  said  school  shall  be  free. 

Number  of  206.  Each  county  shall  be  entitled  to  as  many  pupils 

in  said  school  as  it  shall  have  representatives  in  the 
Legislature,  but  in  case  any  county  shall  not  have  in 
said  school  the  full  number  of  pupils  to  which  it  shall 
be  entitled,  pupils  may  be  admitted  from  other  counties. 

Appropriation.  207.  In  lieu  of  all  claims,  rights  and  titles  that  the 
Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School  for  Colored 
Youth  has  or  may  hereafter  have  upon  the  annual  appro- 
priation coming  to  this  state  from  Congress  under  the 
provisions  of  the  supplement  to  the  act  of  Congress  of 
August  thirteenth,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
ninety,  a  sum  not  to  exceed  five  thousand  dollars  may 
be  annually  appropriated  for  the  maintenance  of  said 
school  out  of  any  money  in  the  state  treasury  not  other- 
wise appropriated. 

Treasurer.  208.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  appoint 

some  suitable  person  treasurer  of  said  school  and  shall 
fix  his  salary. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  89 

ARTICLE  XXIV. 

MANUAL    TRAINING. 

209.  Whenever  in  any  school  district  there  shall  have  Appropriation, 
been  raised  by  special  tax  or  by  subscription  or  both 

-a  sum  not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for 
the  establishment  in  such  district  of  a  school  or  schools 
for  industrial  education  or  manual  training,  or  for  the 
purpose  of  adding  industrial  education  or  manual  train- 
ing to  the  course  of  study  then  pursued  in  the  school 
or  schools  of  such  district,  there  shall  be  paid  for  such 
purpose  to  the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  said 
district,  on  the  order  of  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  an  amount  equal  to  that  raised 
therein  as  aforesaid,  which  amount  shall  be  paid  by 
the  State  Treasurer  on  the  warrant  of  the  State  Comp- 
troller. Whenever  such  school  or  schools  shall  have 
been  established  in  any  district,  or  said  industrial  educa- 
tion or  manual  training  shall  have  been  added  to  the 
course  of  study  in  the  school  or  schools  of  any  district, 
there  shall  be  paid  to  such  district  in  like  manner  for 
the  maintenance  and  support  thereof  a  sum  equal  to 
that  raised  each  year  in  the  district  for  such  purpose; 
provided,  that  the  course  of  study  in  industrial  educa-  Proviso, 
tion  or  manual  training  established  under  the  provisions 
of  this  section  shall  be  approved  by  the  State  Board  of 
Education;  and  provided  further,  that  the  moneys  ap-  Proviso, 
propriated  by  the  state  as  aforesaid  to  any  school  district 
shall  not  exceed  in  any  one  year  the  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars.  The  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  the  ^dgdlanof 
school  district  shall  be  the  legal  custodian  of  any  and 
all  funds  subscribed,  appropriated  or  raised  for  the  pur- 
pose of  carrying  out  the  course  of  study  contemplated 
by  this  section,  and  he  shall  keep  a  separate  and  distinct 
account  thereof,  and  shall  disburse  said  moneys  on  orders 
signed  by  the  president  and  district  clerk  or  secretary 
•©f  the  board  of  education. 

210.  In  case  the  sum  necessary  as  aforesaid  to  obtain  Additional 

.      .  ,  managers  in 

the  state  appropriation  or  any  part  thereof  shall  have  certain  cases. 


90 


Report. 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

been  raised  by  private  subscription,  the  board  of  educa- 
tion of  any  school  district  in  which  there  shall  have  been 
established  a  separate  school  for  industrial  education 
or  manual  training  under  the  provisions  of  this  article, 
may  select  from  among  the  donors  of  such  sum  not  more 
than  six  persons  to  assist  said  board  in  the  management 
of  said  school. 

211.  The  board  of  education  of  any  school  district 
receiving  an  appropriation  from  the  state  for  the  purpose- 
mentioned  in  this  article  shall  annually,  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  August,  make  a  special  report  to  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  in  the  man- 
ner and  form  prescribed  by  him. 


AETICLE  XXV. 


Appropria- 
tions. 


Selection  of 
books. 


Joint  library. 


SCHOOL    LIBRARIES. 

212.  The  State  Comptroller  shall  draw  his  warrant 
on  the   State   Treasurer  upon   the   order  of   the   State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  and  in  favor  of 
the  custodian  of  the  school  moneys  of  a  school  district 
for  the  sum  of  twenty  dollars  for  any  public  school  situ- 
ate in  such  district  for  which  there  shall  have  been  raised 
by  special  district  tax,  subscription  or  entertainment  a 
like  sum  to  establish  in  such  school  a  school  library,  or  to- 
procure  books  of  reference,  school  apparatus  or  educa- 
tional works  of  art;    and  the  further  sum  of  ten  dollars 
annually  upon  a  like  order,  upon  condition  that  there 
shall  have  been  raised  by  special  district  tax,  subscrip- 
tion or  entertainment  a  like  sum  for  the  maintenance  of 
such  library  for  such  year. 

213.  All  selections  of  articles  aforesaid  purchased  m 
part  by  state  funds  shall  be  approved  in  such  manner 
as  the  State  Board  of  Education  may  by  rule  direct. 

214.  In  any  school  district  in  which  there  shall  be 
more  than  one  school-house,  the  school  library  commit- 
tees of  two  or  more  of  such  schools  may  consolidate  and 
establish  in  one  place  the  school  libraries  under  their 


SCHOOL  LAW.  91 

control,  and  said  committees  shall  constitute  a  joint  com- 
mittee for  the  control  and  management  of  such  consoli- 
dated library. 

AETICLE  XXVI. 

TEACHERS'  LIBRARIES. 

215.  Whenever  in  any  county  there  shall  have  been  Appropria- 
raised  by  subscription  a  sum  of  money  not  less  than  one 
hundred  dollars  for  the  establishment  of  a  library  of 
pedagogical  books  for  the  use  of  the  teachers  of  the 
public  schools,   the   State  Comptroller  shall,   upon  the 

order  of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
draw  his  warrant  on  the  State  Treasurer  in  favor  of 
the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  of  said  county 
for  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  benefit  of 
such  library,  and  annually  thereafter  there  shall  be 
paid  on  a  like  order  a  sum  not  less  than  fifty  dollars  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  upon  condition  that  there 
shall  have  been  raised  by  subscription  a  like  sum  for 
the  maintenance  of  such  library  for  such  year. 

216.  The  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  and  three  Committee, 
teachers  of  public  schools  in  such  county  appointed  by 

him,  shall  constitute  a  committee  to  select  and  purchase 
books  and  apparatus  for  such  library,  and  to  make  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  management,  use  and  safe- 
keeping thereof. 

ARTICLE   XXVII. 

TEACHERS''    RETIREMENT    FUND. 

217.  There  shall  be  a  board  of  trustees  of  the  fund  ' hoir 
hereinafter  mentioned  to  be  known  as  "The  Board  of 
Trustees   of   the   Teachers'    Retirement   Fund,"   which 

board  shall  be  composed  of  such  members  as  the  Legis- 
lature shall  from  time  to  time  prescribe;  and,  until 
changed  by  law,  said  board  shall  consist  of  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  three  members 
of  the  State  Board  of  Education  chosen  by  that  body, 
and  three  members  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Teachers' 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Association  upon  whom  this  act  shall  have  become  bind- 
ing by  its  terms.  Said  last-mentioned  three  members 
shall  be  selected  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  New 
Jersey  State  Teachers'  Association  by  those  members 

Term  of  office,  of  said  association  eligible  to  election  hereunder.  The 
terms  of  office  of  the  members  so  chosen  by  the  State 
Board  of  Education  shall  be  co-extensive  with  their 
respective  terms  as  members  of  such  Board  of  Education, 
and  the  terms  of  office  of  those  members  elected  by  the 
members  of  the  !N"ew  Jersey  State  Teachers'  Association 
hereinabove  designated,  shall  be  for  three  years  and 
until  their  successors  shall  be  elected.  The  members 
and  officers  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Teachers' 
Eetirement  Fund  as  now  constituted  shall  continue  in 
office  for  the  full  terms  for  which  they  have  been  sev- 
erally elected. 

218.  Said  board  of  trustees  shall  elect  one  of  its 
members  president  and  one  secretary,  who  shall  hold 
office  respectively  until  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the 
board  and  until  their  successors  shall  be  elected;  pro- 
vided, that  the  term  of  office  of  such  president  or  secre- 
tary shall  not  extend  beyond  his  term  of  office  as  member 
of  said  board  of  trustees.  The  annual  meeting  for  the 
election  of  officers  shall  be  held  on  the  second  Monday 
of  September.  Said  board  shall  administer  the  fund 
.  hereinafter  mentioned  and  order  all  payments  therefrom 

investment  of  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  article.  Such  portion 
of  said  fund  as  the  board  of  trustees  may,  from  time  to 
time  determine,  may  be  invested  either  on  bond  and 
mortgage  upon  real  estate  situate  within  this  state  worth 
at  least  double  the  amount  loaned  thereon,  or  in  any 
bonds  of  this  state,  or  bonds  of  any  of  the  counties  or 
school  districts  of  this  state,  or  in  any  of  the  bonds  of 
any  city  or  other  municipality  of  this  state  whose  aggre- 
gate bonded  indebtedness  shall  not  exceed  fifteen  per 
centum  of  the  amount  of  its  taxable  ratables.  All  moneys 
invested  in  any  of  the  securities  mentioned  in  this  section 
shall  be  deemed  to  be  part  of  the  permanent  principal 
of  said  fund,  and  the  income  arising  from  said  moneys 
so  invested,  together  with  all  moneys  received  as  per- 
centages of  the  salaries  of  teachers,  and  all  moneys 


Officers. 


Proviso. 


Annual  meet- 
ing. 


lund. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  93 

received  by  donation,   legacy,   gift,   bequest,   devise   or 

otherwise,  and  which  shall  not  be  specifically  directed  to 

be  made  a  part  of  the  permanent  principal  of  said  fund, 

shall  be  available  for  the  payment  of  annuities  and  the 

expenses  connected  with  the  management  of  said  fund. 

All  moneys  received  in  payment  of  principal  of  bonds 

or  other  securities  held  by  said  fund  shall  be  re-invested 

and  shall  remain  a  part  of  said  principal.     Said  board  Annual  report 

shall  report  annually  to  the  State  Board  of  Education 

at  its  meeting  in  October,  the  condition  of  said  fund 

and  the  receipts  and  disbursements  on  account  of  the 

same,  together  with  a  list  of  the  beneficiaries  of  said 

fund,  and  the  amount  paid  to  each  of  said  beneficiaries. 

The  fiscal  year  of  said  fund  shall  begin  on  the  first  day 

of  July  and  shall  end  on  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  and 

the  report  herein  required  shall  be  for  such  fiscal  year. 

219.  The  State  Treasurer  shall  be  ex-officio  treasurer 
of  the  fund  hereinafter  mentioned.     He  shall  receive 
all  moneys  payable -to  said  fund,  and  shall  pay  out  the 
same  only  on  warrants  or  orders  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  said  fund,  which  warrants  or  orders  shall  be  signed 
by  the  president  and  secretary  of  said  board,  and  all 
warrants  or  orders  when  so  signed,  shall  be  full  authority 
for  and  the  acquittance  of  said  treasurer  for  all  pay- 
ments from  said  fund.    Said  treasurer  shall  give  receipts 
for  all  moneys  received  by  him  for  said  fund;    shall 
keep  full  and  correct  accounts  of  the  financial  transac- 
tions connected  with  the  said  fund  in  proper  books  for 
that  purpose,  and  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  the 
board  of  trustees  at  its  meeting  in  September  of  the 
receipts  and  disbursements  and  other  financial  transac- 
tions connected  with  said  fund. 

220.  Whenever  any  teacher  shall  have  taught  in  the  Annuitants, 
public  schools,  or  in  any  normal  or  reformatory  school 

or  in  any  other  school  of  this  state  supported  either 
wholly  or  in  part  by  public  moneys  raised  under  the 
authority  of  any  law  of  this  state,  for  a  period  or  periods 
aggregating  twenty  years  or  more,  and  shall  have  become 
incapacitated  from  earning  a  sufficient  livelihood,  such 
teacher  shall,  at  his  or  her  request,  and  on  the  approval 
of  the  aforesaid  board  of  trustees  be  retired  as  a  teacher, 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Proviso. 


Proviso. 


Decision  of 
trustees  con- 
clusive. 


Payment  of 
annuities. 


Payment  to 
teachers  who 
have  resigned. 


Fund,  how 
constituted. 


and  shall  thereafter  receive  an  annuity  out  of  the  fund 
hereinafter  mentioned  equal  to  one-half  of  the  average 
annual  salary  received  by  such  teacher  for  the  five  years 
immediately  preceding  the  time  of  retirement;  provided, 
however,  that  no  annuity  shall  be  less  than  two  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  six  hundred  dollars; 
provided  further,  that  no  teacher  shall  be  retired  under 
the  provisions  of  this  article  unless  he  or  she  shall  have 
first  paid  into  said  fund  such  sum  as  shall  make  his 
or  her  total  payments  into  said  fund  equal  to  at  least 
twenty  per  centum  of  his  or  her  average  annual  salary 
for  the  five  years  immediately  preceding  the  time  of 
such  retirement.  The  decision  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  said  fund  upon  any  application  for  such  annuity 
shall  conclusively  determine  the  right  of  the  applicant 
thereto,  and  the  payment  of  any  such  annuity  shall  be 
suspended  whenever  it  shall  appear  to  said  board  upon 
sufficient  proof,  that  the  annuitant  is  able  to  earn  a 
sufficient  livelihood,  but  such  payment  may  be  resumed 
whenever  said  board  shall  deem  it  proper  so  to  do. 

221.  All  annuities  payable  under  the  provisions  of 
this  article  shall  be  paid  in  quarterly  installments  on 
the  last  days  of  September,  December,  March  and  June, 
and  all  annuities  granted  shall  date  from  the  first  day 
of  the  quarter  next  succeeding  the  dates  of  the  granting 
of  such  annuities ; "  but  if  the  funds  available  for  the 
payment  of  any  installment  shall  not  be  sufficient  to  pay 
the  aggregate  of  annuities  payable  under  this   article 
in  any  quarter,  such  annuities  shall  abate  pro  rata. 

222.  Any  teacher  upon  whom  the  provisions  of  this 
article  shall  have  become  binding,  who  shall  have  con- 
tributed to  the  fund  hereinafter  mentioned  for  five  years 
or  more,   and  who  shall  resign  his  or  her  position  as 
teacher  or  shall  be  otherwise  honorably  retired  from  such 
position,   except  as  hereinbefore  provided,   shall,   upon 
application  within  three  months  after  the  date  of  such 
resignation  or  retirement  be  entitled  to  receive  and  shall 
receive  one-half  of  the  total  amount  paid  by  him  or 
her  into  said  fund  without  interest. 

223.  The  retirement  fund  herein  provided  for  shall 
be  made  up  as  follows: 


SCHOOL  LAW.  95 


I.  One  per  centum  of  the  monthly  salaries  of  all 
teachers  upon  whom  this  act  shall  have  become  binding 
\>y  its  terms  prior  to  January  first,  one  thousand  nine 
hundred  and  three;  one  per  centum  of  the  monthly 
salaries  of  all  teachers  wta  shall  become  members  of  said 
fund  on  or  after  January'  first,  one  thousand  nine  hun- 
dred and  three,  and  who  shall  have  been  teaching  ten 
jears  or  less  at  the  time  of  becoming  members  of  said 
fund;  two  per  centum  of  the  monthly  salaries  of  all 
teachers  who  shall  become  members  of  said  fund  on  or 
after  said  date,  and  who  shall  have  been  teaching  more 
than  ten  years  at  the  time  of  becoming  members  of 
said  fund  ;  provided,  that  on'  or  after  said  date  no  person  Proviso. 
who  shall  have  been  teaching  more  than  fifteen  years 
shall  become  a  member  of  said  fund  unless  he  or  she 
shall  have  passed  a  satisfactory  medical  examination 
under  such  rules  as  the  board  of  trustees  may  prescribe  ; 
<ind  provided  further,  that  a  teacher,  now  a  member  of  Proviso. 
said  fund,  shall  not  be  required  to  pay  more  than  one 
per  centum  of  his  or  her  monthly  salary  by  reason  of 
the  fact  that  he  or  she  has  been  teaching  more  than  ten 
years.  The  said  per  centum  shall  be  reserved  or  deducted 
from  each  warrant  or  order  for  salary  given  to  such 
teacher  by  the  board  of  education  or  other  offic'ers  as 
shall  be  required  by  law  to  give  such  warrants  or  orders 
to  such  teachers,  and  the  said  board  of  education  or 
other  officer  shall,  between  the  first  and  tenth  days  of 
each  and  every  calendar  month,  draw  their  warrants  for 
the  amount  so  reserved  and  deducted  during  the  pre- 
ceding calendar  month  in  favor  of  the  custodian  of  the 
school  moneys  of  the  district  or  school  in  which  such 
teachers  shall  be  employed,  and  the  said  custodian  shall, 
immediately  upon  the  receipt  of  such  warrant  or  order, 
forward  to  the  State  Treasurer  the  amount  of.  money 
named  in  such  warrant  or  order,  together  with  a  list  of 
the  names  of  the  said  teachers; 

II.  One  per  centum  of  all  annuities  paid  under  the  Percentage  of 
provisions  of  this  article,  which  shall  be  deducted  and 
withheld  from  each  payment  made  to  any  annuitant; 

III.  All  moneys  and  property  received  by  donation,  Legacies. 


96 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Interest  on  in- 
vestments. 


Powers  of 

trustees. 


Make  rules,  etc. 


Draw  orders. 


Expenses  of 
trustees. 


Right  to  sue, 
etc. 


Hold  real 


Who  may  be 
members 


Notice  of  inten- 
tion to  join. 


legacy,  gift,  bequest,  devise  or  otherwise  for  or  on  account 
of  said  fund; 

IV.  All  interest  on  investments  and  other  moneys 
which  may  be  duly  and  legally  raised  for  the  increase- 
of  said  fund. 

224.  Said  board  of  trustees0 shall  have  power: 

I.  To  subpoena  witnesses  and  compel  their  attendance 
to  testify  before  it  in  all  matters  relating  to  the  opera- 
tion of  this  article,  and  any  member  of  said  board  may 
administer  oaths  or  affirmations  to  such  witnesses; 

II.  To  fix  the  salary  of  the  secretary  of  said  board., 
and  to  make  rules,  not  inconsistent  with  the  laws  of 
this  state,  for  their  own  government  and  for  carrying 
out  of  the  provisions  of  this  article; 

III.  To  draw  their  warrants  or  orders  upon  the  State 
Treasurer   for   the  payment  out  of   said   fund   of   all 
annuities  and  necessary  expenses  incurred  in  carrying 
out  the  provisions  of  this  article,  but  the  members  of 
said  board,  excepting  the  secretary,  shall  serve  without 
compensation,  but  said  members  shall  be  paid  the  neces- 
sary expenses  incurred  by  them   as  members   of  said 
board,  which  expenses  shall  be  paid  in  the  same  manner 
as  other  payments  shall  be  made  from  said  fund; 

IV.  By  the  name  of  "The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the- 
Teachers'  Eetirement  Fund"  to  sue  and  be  sued,  com- 
plain and  defend  in  any  court  of  law  or  equity; 

V.  To  have,  hold,  purchase,  sell,  assign  and  transfer 
any  of  the  securities  in  which  any  part  of  the  said  retire- 
ment fund  may  be  invested. 

225.  The  provisions  of  this  article  shall  be  binding 
upon  any  teacher  employed  at  the  time  of  the  passage 
of  this  act  in  any  of  the  schools  hereinabove  mentioned, 
only  in  case  he  or  she  shall  sign  and  deliver  to  the  board 
of  education,  board  of  trustees  or  other  body  by  whom 
he  or  she  shall  be  employed,  a  notice  in  substantially 
the  following  form: 

To  the  board  of  education  of  : 

You  are  hereby  notified  that  I  desire  to  avail  myself 
of  the  provisions  of  Article  XXVII.  of  the  act  of  the- 
Legislature  entitled  "An  act  to  establish  a  system  of 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

public  instruction/7  and  that  I  do  hereby  agree  to  be 
bound  thereby; 

Dated ; ; 

A  duplicate  of  said  notice  shall  be  sent  by  the  teacher 
signing  the  same  to  the  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  Teachers'  Retirement  Fund. 

226.  Any  teacher  who  has  heretofore  signed  and  de- 
livered  the  notice  prescribed  in  an  act  entitled  "A  sup- 
plement  to  an  act  entitled  'An  act  to  establish  a  system  members- 
of   Public   Instruction' '     (Revision),    approved   March 
twenty-seventh,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy- 
four,  which  supplement  was  passed  March  eleventh,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-six,  or  in  an  amend- 
ment thereto  approved  March  twenty-fourth,  one  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  and  ninety-nine,  shall  become  bound 

by  the  provisions  of  this  article  and  shall  have  its  advan- 
tages and  privileges  without  signing  or  delivering  any- 
other  notice,  and  shall  be  deemed  to  have  accepted  the 
provisions  of  this  article  by  receiving  any  sum  of  money 
as  salary  from  which  there  shall  have  been  made  a 
deduction  under  and  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  this- 
article.  Any  person  who  is  not  now  a  teacher  in  any 
of  the  schools  hereinabove  mentioned  may  become  bound 
by  the  provisions  of  this  article,  and  have  its  advantages 
and  privileges,  by  signing  and  delivering  to  the  board 
of  education  or  other  body  by  whom  he  or  she  shall 
be  employed  a  notice  as  prescribed  in  this  article. 

227.  Any  teacher  who  shall  have  become  bound  by  Notice  by 

i  •   •  /•    i  •  •   i  i      i        i     11  teacher  of 

the  provisions  01  this  article,  and  who  shall  cease  to  teach  change  at 
in  the  district  or  school  in  which  he  or  she  was  teaching 
at  the  time  of  signing  and  delivering  the  notice  as  pro- 
vided in  this  article,  and  who  shall  be  employed  as  a 
teacher  in  any  other  district  or  school,  shall  immediately 
give  written  notice  to  the  board  of  education  having  con- 
trol of  the  school  in  which  he  or  she  shall  be  teaching 
that  he  or  she  is  a  member  of  the  Teachers'  Retirement 
Fund,  and  said  notice  shall  direct  that  the  prescribed  per 
centum  of  his  or  her  salary  be  deducted  and  forwarded 
to  the  State  Treasurer.  Such  teacher  shall  send  one 
copy  of  said  notice  with  his  or  her  address  to  the  secre- 

7 


98 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


To  whom  this 
act  applies 


tary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Teachers'  Ketire- 
ment  Fund,  and  another  copy  of  said  notice  to  the  State 
Treasurer. 

228.  The  provisions  of  this  article  shall  apply  to  any 
superintendent,  principal  or  supervising  principal  who 
shall  teach  or  be  employed  in  the  public  schools  of  this 
state,  or  in  any  normal,  model  or  reformatory  school 
of  this  state,  or  in  any  other  school  of  this  state  supported 
either  wholly  or  in  part  by  public  moneys  raised  under 
the  authority  of  any  law  of  this  state. 


AETICLE  XXVIII. 


SALARIES    OF    TEACHERS    AND    PRINCIPALS. 


prhnarylfcgram 


partments 


t<fachers°f  ^^'  Teachers  hereafter  employed  in  any  graded 

school  in  this  state  supported  in  whole  or  in  part  by 
staie  moneys  shall  receive  salaries  proportioned  to  their 
experience  and  success-  in  the  school  district  where  they 
may  be  employed,  such  salary,  in  the  case  of  every 
teacher  whose  experience  and  success  have  been  properly 
certified  to,  to  be  not  less  than  the  amount  provided  for 
such  teacher  in  the  following  schedule: 

Assistant  teachers  in  primary  and  grammar  schools 
and  kindergartens: 

Less  than  two  years'  experience,  four  hundred  and 
eight  dollars  per  annum; 

Two  years'  and  less  than  three  years'  experience,  four 
hundred  and  fifty-six  dollars  per  annum; 

Three  years'  and  less  than  four  years'  experience,  five 
hundred  and  four  dollars  per  annum; 

Four  years'  and  less  than  five  years'  experience,  five 
hundred  and  fifty-two  dollars  per  annum; 

Five  years'  and  less  than  six  years'  experience,  six 
hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Six  years'  and  less  than  seven  years'  experience,  six 
hundred  and  forty-eight  dollars  per  annum; 

Seven  years'  and  less  than  eight  years'  experience,  six 
hundred  and  ninety-six  dollars  per  annum; 


SCHOOL  LAW.  99 

Eight  years'  and  less  than  nine  years'  experience, 
seven  hundred  and  forty-four  dollars  per  annum; 

Nine  years7  and  less  than  ten  years'  experience,  seven 
hundred  and  ninety-two  dollars  per  annum; 

Ten  years'  and  less  than  eleven  years'  experience, 
-eight  hundred  and  forty  dollars  per  annum; 

Eleven  years'  and  less  than  twelve  years'  experience, 
eight  hundred  and  eighty-eight  dollars  per  annum; 

Twelve  years'  experience  and  upwards,  nine  hundred 
and  thirty-six  dollars  per  annum; 

Principals  of  schools  containing  grammar  and  primary  Principals  of 

*    grammar  and 

departments :  primary 

,  .  i  -      .       .       i  schools. 

Less  than  one  year  s  experience  as  such  principal,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

One  year's  and  less  than  two  years'  experience,  one 
thousand  nine  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Two  years'  and  less  than  three  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  dollars  per  annum; 

Three  years'  and  less  than  four  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  one  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Eour  years'  and  less  than  five  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  two  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Five  years'  and  less  than  six  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  three  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Six  years'  and  less  than  seven  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  four  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Seven  years'  experience  and  upwards,  two  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Principals  of  schools  containing  primary  departments  Principals  of 

,    i  primary 

only :  schools. 

Less  than  one  year's  experience  as  such  principal, 
one  thousand  two  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

One  year's  and  less  than  two  years'  experience,  one 
thousand  three  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Two  years'  and  less  than  three  years'  experience,  one 
thousand  four  hundred  dollars  per  annum ; 

Three  years'  and  upwards,  one  thousand  five  hundred 
dollars  per  annum; 

Principals  of  primary  departments  shall  be  paid  at  Principals  of 
the  same  rate  as  principals  of  schools  containing  primary 
departments  only; 


100 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Vice-principals 
of  grammar 
and  primary 
departments. 


Assistants  in 
high  schools. 


Vice-principals 
of  high  schools. 


Principals  of 
high  schools. 


Vice-principals,  head  assistants  and  first  assistants  of 
grammar  and  primary  departments: 

Less  than  one  year's  experience  as  such  vice-principal,, 
head  assistant  or  first  assistant,  nine  hundred  and  ninety- 
six  dollars  per  annum; 

One  year's  and  less  than  two  years'  experience,  one 
thousand  and  fifty-six  dollars  per  annum; 

Two  years'  and  less  than  three  years'  experience,  one 
thousand  one  hundred  and  sixteen  dollars  per  annum ; 

Three  years'  experience  and  upwards,  one  thousand 
one  hundred  and  seventy-six  dollars  per  annum; 

Assistant  teachers  in  high  schools,  male  assistants: 

Less  than  one  year's  experience,  one  thousand  five 
hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

One  year's  and  less  than  two  years'  experience,  one 
thousand  six  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  and  for  each 
year's  experience  thereafter  at  an  additional  salary  of 
one  hundred  dollars  per  annum  to  not  less  than  the  sum 
of  two  thousand  four  hundred  dollars  per  annum ; 

Female  assistants  in  high  schools: 

Less  than  one  year's  experience,  seven  hundred  dollars 
per  annum,  and  for  each  year's  experience  thereafter, 
at  an  additional  salary  of  one  hundred  dollars  per 
annum,  to  not  less  than  the  sum  of  one  thousand  tw» 
hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Vice-principals  of  high  schools: 

Less  than  one  year's  experience  two  thousand  dollars 
per  annum,  and  for  each  year's  experience  thereafter, 
at  an  additional  salary  of  one  hundred  dollars  per 
annum,  to  not  less  than  two  thousand  five  hundred 
dollars  per  annum; 

Principals  of  high  schools: 

Less  than  one  year's  experience  as  such  high  school 
principal,  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum ; 

One  year's  and  less  than  two  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  six  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Two  years'  and  less  than  three  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  seven  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Three  years'  and  less  than  four  years'  experience,  two- 
thousand  eight  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 


SCHOOL  LAW.  101 

Four  years'  and  less  than  five  years'  experience,  two 
thousand  nine  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Five  years'  experience  and  upwards,  three  thousand 
dollars  per  annum; 

Model    teachers    in   model    departments    of   training  Teachers  in 

.  ^=>  training 

schools  for  teachers:  schools. 

In  addition  to  the  salaries  herein  provided  for  assistant 
teachers  of  primary  and  grammar  schools,  one  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars,  each,  per  annum; 

Critic  teachers  of  training  schools  for  teachers: 

Two  hundred  dollars,  each,  per  annum,  as  extra  com- 
pensation ; 

Principal  of  primary  department  of  training  schools  pjfj£ipa|j°f 
for  teachers:  payments  of 

training 

Less  than  one  year's  experience,   one  thousand  five  schools, 
hundred  dollars'  per  annum,  and  for  each  year's  expe- 
rience thereafter  at  an  additional  salary  of  one  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,   to  not  less  than  the  sum  of  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  dollars  per  annum; 

Teachers  of  methods  or  supervisor  of  methods  of  train- 
ing schools  for  teachers: 

Less  than  one  year's  experience,  one  thousand  five 
hundred  dollars  per  annum,  and  for  each  year's  expe- 
rience thereafter,  at  an  additional  salary  of  one  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  to  not  less  than  two  thousand  dollars 
per  annum; 

Principals  of  training  schools  for  teachers:  Principals  of 

T  i  .  -i     n        training 

Less  than  one  years  experience,  two  thousand  five  schools, 
hundred  dollars  per  annum,  and  for  each  year's  expe- 
rience thereafter,  at  an  additional  salary  of  one  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  to  not  less  than  three  thousand  dol- 
lars per  annum ;  provided,  that  if  the  annual  salary  of  Proviso, 
any  teacher  now  employed  in  any  graded  school  of  any 
school  district  is  less  than  the  amount  required  to  be  paid 
to  such  teacher  by  the  preceding  schedule,  the  salary  of 
such  teacher  shall,  if  such  teacher's  experience  is  ap- 
proved as  successful,  be  increased  by  adding  thereto 
annually,  beginning  with  the  first  day  of  the  fiscal  year 
next  succeeding  the  adoption  of  this  article  in  the  man- 
ner provided  in  section  two  hundred  and  thirty  of  this 
4ict,  a  sum  equal  to  the  annual  increase  provided  in  the 


102 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Proviso. 


Referendum. 


preceding  schedule  for  the  class  t©  which  such  teacher; 
belongs,  until  such  teacher's  salary  shall  be  in  accord- 
ance with  the  schedule;  and  provided  further,  that  the- 
annual  salary  paid  to  any  principal  or  vice-principal 
hereafter  appointed  shall  not  exceed  the  annual  salary 
paid  at  the  time  such  appointment  is  made  to  principals 
and  vice-principals  of  the  same  class  respectively,  and 
that  the  salary  of  every  such  appointee  shall,  if  the  ex- 
perience of  such  appointee  proves  to  be  successful,  be 
increased  annually  by  the  amount  and  in  the  manner 
described  in  this  section,  until  the  salary  of  such 
appointee  shall  be  in  accordance  with  the  preceding 
schedule. 

230.  The  board  of  aldermen,  common  council  or  other 
governing  body  of  any  municipality  of  this  state,  may, 
by  resolution,  submit  the  question  of  the  acceptance 
or  rejection  of  this  article  to  the  voters  of  such  munici- 
pality at  any  general  or  charter  election  to  be  held 
therein,  whereof  at  least  ten  days'  notice  shall  be  given 
by  public  advertisement  in  two  daily  newspapers  of  this 
state,  circulating  in  such  municipality,  and  if  a  majority 
of  those  who  shall  vote  for  the  acceptance  or  rejection 
thereof  shall  be"  in  favor  of  the  acceptance  of  this  article, 
then  this  article  shall  go  into  effect  at  the  commencement 
of  the  then  next  fiscal  year  in  such  school  district,  and 
the  grant  of  power  herein  made  shall  be  deemed  to  be 
accepted  by  such  school  district,  and  such  school  district 
shall  be  bound  by  the  terms  of  this  article;  persons  en- 
titled to  vote  at  any  election  where  this  question  is  sub- 
mitted to  them  shall  express  their  assent  or  rejection  of 
this  article  in  the  manner  provided  in  "An  act  to  regu- 
late elections"  [Revision  of  1898]  ;  there  shall  be  a 
canvass  on  return  of  the  votes  upon  the  question  of  ac- 
ceptance or  rejection  of  this  article  made  by  the  election 
officers  in  the  same  way  and  manner  as  for  officers  voted 
for  at  such  election,  and  if  a  majority  of  the  ballots  shall 
be  found  to  be  in  favor  of  the  acceptance  of  this  article 
it  shall  then,  but  not  otherwise,  go  into  effect  and  be 
binding  upon  the  school  district  situate  in  said  munici- 
pality wherein  such  vote  shall  be  taken. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  103 

231.  All  elections  or  submissions  to  the  vote  of  the 
qualified  voters  of  any  municipality  for  the  adoption 
of  the  provisions  of  any  statute  establishing  the  com- 
pensation to  be  paid  to  teachers  and  principals  in  the 
public  schools,  and  to  provide  for  the  payment  thereof, 
in  the  school  district  situate  in  such  municipality,  which 
statute  was  in  substantial  compliance  with  the  provisions 
of  this  article,  and  the  acceptance  of  the  provisions  of 
such  statute  by  reason  of  a  majority  of  the  ballots  having 
been  found  to  be  in  favor  thereof,   and  the  attendant 
proceedings   heretofore  held,    submitted,   had,   done   or 
taken  pursuant  to  and  in  substantial  compliance  with 
such  statute  are  hereby  validated  and  confirmed  as  fully 
and  to  the  same  extent  as  though  done  after  the  passage 
of  and  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  this  article, 
and  said  teachers  and  principals  shall  hereafter  receive 
and  be  paid  salaries  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
this  article. 

ARTICLE  XXIX. 

.    MISCELLANEOUS. 

232.  If  the  board  of  education  of  any  school  district  Penalty  for 

"  misuse  of 

shall  use  any  of  the  school  money  received  by  it,  except  school  moneys, 

such  as  shall  have  been  raised  within  the  district,  for 

any  purpose  other  thai;  the  payment  of  teachers'  salaries, 

fuel  bills,  the  transportation  of  pupils  and  the  tuition 

of  pupils  attending  schools  in  adjoining  districts,  there 

shall   be   deducted   by   the    County    Superintendent   of 

Schools  from  the  next  annual   apportionment  to   such 

district  a  sum  equal  to  twice  the  amount  thus  used,  and 

said  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  apportion 

the  money  thus  deducted  among  the  other  districts  of 

the  county;    provided,  that  the  State  Superintendent  of  Proviso. 

Public  Instruction  may  remit  such  penalty. 

233.  Every  board  of  education  mav  employ  a  com-  Appointment 

,        .    .  .          "     ..  of  medical  in- 

petent  physician  to  be  known  as  the  Medical  Inspector,  specters, 
fix  his  salary  and  define  his  duties.     Said  Medical  In- 
spector shall  visit  the  schools  in  the  district  in  which 
he  shall  be  employed  at  stated  times  to  be  determined 


104  SCHOOL  LAW. 

by  the  board  of  education,  and  during  such  visits  shall 
1"  examine  every  pupil  referred  to  him  >y  a  teacher.  He 
shall  at  least  once  during  each  school  year  examine  every 
pupil  to  learn  whether  any  physical  defect  exists,  and 
keep  a  record  from  year  to  year  of  the  growth  and 
development  of  such  pupil,  which  record  shall  be  the 
property  of  the  board  of  education  and  shall  be  delivered 
by  said  Medical  Inspector  to  his  successor  in  office.  Said 
Inspector  shall  lecture  before  the  teachers  at  such  times 
as  may  be  designated  by  the  board  of  education,  instruct- 
ing them  concerning  the  methods  employed  to  detect  the 
first  signs  of  communicable  disease  and  the  recognized 
measures  for  the  promotion  of  health  and  prevention  of 
disease.  The  board  of  education  may  appoint  more  than 
one  Medical  Inspector. 

JcSf°houses.  234-  EverJ  board  of  education  shall  procure  a  United 
States  flag,  flag-staff  and  the  appliances  therefor  for  each 
school  in  the  district,  and  shall  display  said  flag  upon 
or  near  the  public  school  building  during  school  hours 
and  at  such  other  times  as  said  board  may  deem  proper. 

4piifre$ve°nuse.r"  235-  The  several  counties  in  this  state  shall  appro- 
priate the  interest  of  the  surplus  revenue  to  the  support 
of  the  public  schools. 

Jtitauter'in'  236-  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  procure  instructors  and  lecturers  for  teachers'  in- 
stitutes. To  defray  the  expenses  incurred  in  holding 
said  institutes  there  shall  be  paid  to  him  annually  by 
the  State  Treasurer,  upon  the  warrant  of  the  State 
Comptroller,  a  sum  not  exceeding  four  thousand  dollars. 
Said  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall 
make  annually  to  the  State  Board  of  Education  an  item- 
ized report  of  the  expenses  incurred  in  holding  said 
teachers'  institutes  during  the  year  for  which  said  report 
shall  be  made. 

237.  The  nature  of  alcoholic  drinks  and  narcotics  and 
their  effects  upon  the  human  system  shall  be  taught  in 
all  schools  supported  wholly  or  in  part  by  public  moneys 
as  thoroughly  and  in  the  same  manner  as  other  like 
branches  shall  be  taught,  by  the  use  of  graded  text-books 
in  the  hands  of  the  pupils  when  other  branches  shall  be 
thus  taught  and  orally  only  in  the  case  of  pupils  unable 


SCHOOL  LAW.  105 

to  read.  In  the  text-books  on  physiology  and  hygiene 
the  space  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the  nature 
of  alcoholic  drinks  and  narcotics  and  their  effects  upon 
the  human  system  shall  be  sufficient  for  a  full  and 
adequate  treatment  of  the  subject.  The  failure  or  refusal 
•of  any  district  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  sufficient  cause  for  withholding  from 
such  district  the  state  appropriation. 

238.  ISTo  certificate  shall  be  granted  to  any  person  to  e!tmin*nnbe 
teach  in  the  public  schools,  except  to  persons  applying  physiology, 
for  special  certificates  to  teach  music,  drawing,  manual 
training  or   other   subjects  not  included   in   the   usual 

school  curriculum,  who  shall  not  have  passed  a  satis- 
factory examination  in  physiology  and  hygiene  with 
special  reference  to  the  nature  of  alcoholic  drinks  and 
narcotics  and  their  effects  upon  the  human  system. 

239.  The  day  in  each  year  known  as  Arbor  Day  shall  Arbor  day. 
be  suitably  observed  in  the  public  schools.     The  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  from  time 

to  time  prepare  ?nd  issue  to  schools  such  circulars  of 
information,  advice  and  instruction  with  reference  to 
the  day  as  he  may  deem  necessary. 

240.  In  all  public  schools  there  shall  be  held  on  the  Patriotic  exer- 

i  111  T          i        <•  i-i        •         i     i. -i  T        cises  to  be  held 

last  school  day  preceding  the  following  holidays,  namely,  on  certain 
Lincoln's  birthday,  Washington's  birthday,  Decoration 
or  Memorial  day  and  Thanksgiving  day  and  on  such 
other  patriotic  holidays  as  shall  be  established  by  law, 
appropriate  exercises  for  the  development  of  a  higher 
spirit  of  patriotism. 

241.  Whenever  an  execution  shall  be  issued  against  ^Jg^JJ^ 
the  board  of  education  of  a  school  district  or  of  a  union-  agamst  a 

school  district. 

graded  school  by  any  court  authorized  to  issue  the  same, 
upon  a  judgment  recovered  either  before  or  subsequent 
to  the  passage  of  this  act,  and  there  shall  be  found  no 
property  belonging  to  said  school  district  or  union- 
graded  school  sufficient  to  satisfy  the  same  liable  to  be 
levied  on,  then  the  officer  authorized  to  execute  such 
process  shall  serve  a  certified  copy  of  said  execution 
upon  the  assessor  or  assessors  of  the  taxing  district  or 
districts  in  which  said  school  district  or  union-graded 
school  shall  be  situate,  and  also  upon  the  collector  or 


106 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


School  year. 


Appropria- 
tions. 


Selection  of 
members  of 
board  of  educa- 
tion and  appro- 
priations in 
certain  dis- 
tricts. 


"Article" 
construed. 


All  elections, 
assessments, 
bonds,  etc., 
under  act  of 
1900  validated. 


collectors  of  such  taxing  district  or  districts.  Upon 
receipt  of  such  copy  or  copies  such  assessor  or  assessors- 
shall,  at  the  time  of  the  next  regular  assessment  of  school 
taxes,  assess  upon  the  inhabitants  of  said  school  district 
and  their  estates,  and  upon  the  taxable  property  therein,, 
in  addition  to  the  regular  school  taxes,  the  amount  due 
upon  said  execution,  with  interest  thereon  to  the  time 
when  the  same  shall  be  paid  to  the  officer  serving  such 
process  and  the  collector  or  collectors  shall  levy  and 
collect  the  same,  and  said  amount,  when  collected,  shall 
be  a  separate  fund,  and  shall  be  paid  over  by  said  col- 
lector to  the  officer  who  shall  have  served  said  process. 

242.  The  school  year  shall  begin  on  the  first  day  of 
July  an  end  on  the  thirtieth  day  of  June. 

243.  No  money  shall  be  paid  from  the  state  treasury 
for  any  purpose  named  in  this  act  unless  an  appropria- 
tion therefor  shall  have  been  made  by  the  Legislature 
in  the  annual  appropriation  act. 

244.  In  any  school  district  which  comprises  a  munici- 
pality   and    a    portion    of    an    adjoining   municipality,, 
members  of  the  board  of  education  shall  be  selected  in 
the  same  manner  in  all  respects  as  they  are  selected  in 
said  district  at  the  time  of  the  passage  of  this  act,  and 
moneys  for  the  maintenance  of  public  schools  therein 
shall  be  ordered,  assessed,  levied  and  collected  in  the 
same  manner  as  they  are  ordered,  assessed,  levied  and 
collected  therein  at  the  time  of  the  passage  of  this  act. 

245.  Whenever  in  this  act  the  word  "artic'-e"  is  used,, 
it  shall  be  construed  as  referring  to  the  caption  under 
which  it  is  used. 

246.  Every  school  district  shall  be  responsible   and 
liable  for  all  contracts,  bonds  and  obligations  of  said 
district  which  have  been  entered  into,  made  or  incurred 
under   the   provisions   of    an    act   entitled    "An   act   to 
establish   a  system  of  public  instruction    [Eevision  of 
1900] ,"    approved    March    twenty-third,    one    thousand 
nine  hundred,  whether  or  not  such   act  lawfully  con- 
ferred the  power  to  enter  into,  make  or  incur  the  same;; 
and  all  elections  or  submissions  to  the  vote  of  the  quali- 
fied voters  of  any  school  district  of  the  question  whether 
in  such  district  the  board  of  education  should  be  created 


SCHOOL  LAW.  10T 

by  election  by  the  people  or  otherwise,  and  the  attendant 
proceedings  heretofore  held,  submitted,  had,  done  or 
taken  pursuant  to  and  in  substantial  compliance  with 
said  act,  shall  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  validated  and 
confirmed  as  fully  and  to  the  same  extent  as  though  done 
after  the  passage  of  and  in  conformity  with  this  act; 
and  in  every  such  district  hereafter  the  board  of  educa- 
tion shall,  if  the  manner  of  its  creation  has  been  so 
fixed  as  to  be  by  appointment,  be  appointed  and  organ- 
ized under  the  provisions  of  section  forty-two  of  this  act, 
and  if  the  manner  of  its  creation  shall  have  been  by  such 
election  or  submission  so  fixed  as  to  be  by  election  by  the 
people,  then  the  board  of  education  shall  be  hereafter 
elected  and  organized  in  such  school  district  under  the 
provisions  of  section  forty-three  of  this  act;  and  all 
elections  for  members  of  the  board  of  education  in  any 
such  school  district  held  pursuant  to  and  in  substantial 
compliance  with  said  act,  approved  March  twenty-third, 
one  thousand  nine  hundred,  shall  be  and  the  same  are 
hereby  validated  and  confirmed  as  fully  and  to  the  same 
extent  as  if  done  after  the  passage  of  and  in  conformity 
with  this  act;  and  the  members  so  elected  shall  con- 
stitute and  be  the  board  of  education  of  such  school 
district,  and  shall  be  deemed  to  be  incorporated  under 
section  forty-eight  of  this  act;  and  all  other  elections, 
acts  and  proceedings  heretofore  held,  passed,  had,  done 
or  taken,  and  all  appropriations,  taxes  and  assessments 
heretofore  made,  levied  and  imposed  in  substantial  com- 
pliance with  said  act,  are  hereby  validated  and  confirmed 
as  fully  and  to  the  same  extent  as  though  done  after 
the  passage  of  and  in  conformity  with  this  act. 

247.  Every  board  of  education  shall  succeed  to  and  be  Board  of  edu- 
vested  with  the  title  to  all  lands,  securities,  monevs  and  vested  with 

^  ,  .   ,  ,       \     ,  ,     ,  -,  -,        -  title  to  special 

other  property  which  may  be  held  by  any  board  of 
managers  for  the  education  of  youth,  commissioners  or 
trustees,  by  whatever  name  called  or  known,  created  or 
existing  by  act  of  the  Legislature,  and  having  charge  and 
control  of  any  property  belonging  to  any  special  school 
fund  used  for  public  school  purposes  and  within  the 
school  district  in  which  such  board  of  education  is  organ- 
ized, and  all  property  so  held  for  any  such  special  school 


108 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Term  of  office 
•of  all  school 
officers  con- 
tinued. 


Township, 
4own  and 
borough  school 
^districts  may 
incorporate 
under  Article 
VI. 

.Referendum. 


fund  shall,  within  thirty  days  after  the  passage  of  this 
act,  be  paid  over  and  transferred  by  said  board  of  mana- 
gers, commissioners  or  trustees  to  the  board  of  education 
or  the  custodian  of  school  moneys  of  said  district,  to  be 
held  for  the  use  of  said  district  as  other  school  property 
within  said  district  is  held  and  used. 

248.  The  members  of  the  State  Board  of  Education, 
the    State    Superintendent    of    Public    Instruction,    the 
county  and  district  superintendents  of  schools,  the  mem- 
bers of  the  boards  of  education  in  township,  incorporated 
town  and  borough  school  districts,  secretaries  of  boards 
of  education,  janitors  and  other  employes  of  the  several 
boards  of  education  of  the  several  school  districts,  shall 
continue  to  serve  for  the  full  term  for  which  they  were 
severally  elected  or  appointed,  as  though  they  had  been 
elected  or  appointed  under  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  and  all  certificates  heretofore  issued,  and  now  in 
force  in  this  state  shall  be  valid  according  to  their  terms 
and  for  the  periods  for  which  they  have  been  severally 
granted. 

249.  Members  of  boards  of  education  in  all  township, 
incorporated   town   and   borough   school   districts   shall 
continue  to  be  elected  or  appointed  in  the  same  manner 
as  said  members  have  been  heretofore  elected  or  ap- 
pointed.    The  acceptance  of  the  provisions  of  this  act 
contained  in  Article  VI.  relating  to  boards  of  education 
in  city  school  districts,  shall  be  submitted  to  the  qualified 
voters  of  any  town,  township  or  borough  at  a  general 
or  municipal  election  to  be  held  therein,  whenever  the 
town   council,   township   committee   or  other  governing 
body  of  such  municipality,  or  the  board  of  education  of 
the  school  district  situate  in  such  municipality,   shall 
have,  by  resolution,  directed  that  such  question  shall  be 
so  submitted.     The  question  to  be  submitted  shall  be 
for  or  against  the  adoption  of  the  provisions  of  Article 
VI.  of  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  establish  a  system  of 

public  instruction,"  approved (insert  herein  the 

date  when  this  is  approved),  and  if  a  majority  of  the 
votes  east  upon  said  question  shall  be  for  the  adoption 
of  the  provisions  of  said  article,  the  school  district  in 
such   municipality   shall   thereafter   in   all   respects   be 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

governed  by  the  provisions  of  Article  VI.  relating  to 
boards  of  education  in  city  school  districts,  and  the  board 
of  education  therein  shall  have  all  the  powers  and  duties 
given  and  imposed  by  the  several  provisions  of  said 
articla 

250.  All  school  districts  shall  hereafter  be  governed  Repealer, 
solely  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,   and  all  acts  and 

parts  of  acts,  general,  special  or  local,  so  far  as  they 
are  inconsistent  with   the   provisions   of   this   act,    are 
hereby  repealed;    provided,  that  this  repealer  shall  not  Proviso, 
revive  any  act  heretofore  repealed ;  and  provided  further,  Proviso. 
that  this  act  shall  not  repeal  or  affect  the  provisions  of 
any  general  act  which  may  have  been  or  may  hereafter 
be  accepted  by  a  vote  of  the  people  in  any  city  or  school 
district  in  this  state. 

251.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 
Approved  March  26,  1902. 


An  Act  providing  for  the  establishment  of  schools  for  in- 
dustrial education,  approved  March  twenty-fourth, 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-one. 

1.  Whenever  any  board  of  education,  school  committee  state  appropri- 

/.  •  •  ation  for  Indus- 

or  other  like  body  of  any  city,  town  or  township  in  this  trial  education, 
state  shall  certify  to  the  governor  that  a  sum  of  money 
not  less  than  three  thousand  dollars  has  been  contributed 
by  voluntary  subscriptions  of  citizens,  or  otherwise  as 
hereinafter  authorized,  for  the  establishment  in  any  such 
city,  town  or  township,  of  a  school  or  schools  for  indus- 
trial education,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  governor 
to  cause  to  be  drawn,  by  warrant  of  the  comptroller, 
approved  by  himself,  out  of  any  moneys  in  the  state 
treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  an  amount  equal 
to  that  contributed  by  the  particular  locality  as  aforesaid 
for  the  said  object;  and  when  any  such  school  or  schools 
shall  have  been  established  in  any  locality  as  aforesaid, 
there  shall  be  annually  contributed  by  the  state,  in  man- 
ner aforesaid,  for  the  maintenance  and  support  thereof, 
a  sum  of  money  equal  to  that  contributed  each  year  in 


110 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Proviso. 


Money  to  be 
applied  under 
•direction  of 
trustees. 
Ibid.,  2  2. 


Local  tax. 
Ibid.,  §  3. 


Trustees  of 
industrial 
schools. 
P.  L.  1895, 
p.  594,  §  1. 


Powers, 


said  locality  for  such  purpose;  provided,  however,  that 
the  moneys  contributed  by  the  state  as  aforesaid  to  any 
locality,  shall  not  exceed  in  any  one  year  the  sum  of  five 
thousand  dollars. 

2.  All  money  raised  and  contributed  as  aforesaid  shall 
be  applied  under  the  direction  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
organized  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  the  establishment 
and  support  of  schools  for  the  training  and  education  of 
pupils  in  industrial  pursuits  (including  agriculture),  so 
as  to  enable  them  to  perfect  themselves  in  the  several 
branches  of  industry  which  require  technical  instruction. 

3.  Any  city,  town  or  township  shall  have  power  to 
appropriate  and  raise  by  tax  for  the  support  of  any  such 
school  therein,  such  sum  of  money  as  they  may  deem 
expedient  and  just. 

4.  There  shall  be  a  board  of  trustees  of  each  of  such 
schools,  which  shall  consist  of  a  governor  and  the  mayor 
or  other  chief  executive  officer  of  the  city,  town  or  town- 
ship in  which  such  school  is  located,  as  ex-officio  members, 
and  eight  other  persons  to  be  chosen  and  appointed  by  the 
governor,  as  follows :  within  thirty  days  after  the  passage 
of  this  act  the  governor  shall  choose  and  appoint  eight 
persons,  resident  in  the  city,  town  or  township  in  which 
such  school  is  located,  as  members  of  such  board  of  trus- 
tees for  the  following  terms: (a)  two  for  the  term  of  one 
year,  two  for  the  term  of  two  years,  two  for  the  term  of 
three  years  and  two  for  the  term  of  four  years ;  and  there- 
after two  trustees  shall  be  appointed  in  like  manner  each 
year  for  a  full  term  of  five  years ;    and  the  official  terms 
of  all  trustees  in  office  at  the  time  of  the  passage  of  this 
act  shall  terminate  and  expire  upon  the  making  of  the 
appointments  aforesaid,  and  the  trustees  appointed  here- 
under  shall  take  office  immediately  upon  their  appoint- 
ment, and  shall  continue  in  office  until  their  successors 
are  appointed,  and  any  vacancy  that  may  occur  in  the  said 
board  of  trustees  shall  be  filled  by  appointment  in  like 
manner  for  the  unexpired  term  only;    the  said  board  of 
trustees  shall  have  control  of  the  buildings  and  grounds 
owned  and  used  by  such  schools,  the  application  of  the 


(a)  Amended  by  section  6. 


SCHOOL  LAW.  Ill 

funds  for  the  support  thereof,  the  regulation  of  the  tuition 
fees,  the  appointment  and  removal  of  teachers,  the  power 
to  prescribe  the  studies  and  the  exercises  of  the  school  and 
rules  for  its  management,  to  grant  certificates  of  gradua- 
tion, to  appoint  some  suitable  person  treasurer  of  the  Treasurer, 
board,  to  frame  and  modify  at  pleasure  such  by-laws  as 
they  may  deem  necessary  for  their  own  government ;  they 
shall  report  annually  to  the  state  and  local  boards  of 
education  their  owrn  doings  and  the  progress  and  condi- 
tion of  the  schools. 

5.  The  said  trustees  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  compensation, 
their  services,  but  the  expenses  necessarily  incurred  by 

them  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties  shall  be  paid  upon 
the  approval  of  the  governor. 

6.  The  trustees  of  schools  for  industrial  education,  to  Je  rm  of  office 
be  hereafter  appointed  by  the  governor  of  this  state  for  p-  L.  is%, 
full  terms  under  and  by  virtue  of  the  acts  to  which  this 

is  a  supplement  or  the  supplements  thereto,  shall  serve 
for  terms  of  four  years  and  not  for  terms  of  five  years 
as  now  required  by  law. 

7.  The  board  of  trustees  of  the  schools  for  industrial  ^^1^ 
education,  provided  for  and  organized  under  the  act  to  Seated  bodies 
which  this  is   a  supplement,   be  and  they  are  hereby  p0^0™^1 
created  a  body  corporate  under  the  name  and  style  of  p- 21>  §  l> 
"the  board  of  trustees  of  schools  for  industrial  educa- 
tion," with  the  right  of  perpetual  succession,  to  sue  and 

l>e  sued,  to  purchase,  lease  and  hold  personal  and  real 
property,  and  to  sell  and  mortgage  the  same,  and  with 
power  to  accept  donations  and  bequests  of  money  and 
property  to  be  used  for  the  purposes  for  which  said 
boards  are  constituted  and  organized. 


An  Act  to  provide  free  lectures  for  workingmen  and 
workingwomen,  approved  February  twenty-fifth, 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-five. 

1.  The  boards  of  education  in  cities  of  this  state  or  Boards  of 

,  .    .       ,.   .  .    .  ,  education  may 

other  municipalities  containing  over  ten  thousand  popu-  provide, 
lation  according  to  the  last  census  are  hereby  authorized 


112 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


and  empowered  to  provide  for  the  employment  of  lec- 
turers on  the  natural  sciences  and  kindred  subjects  in  the- 
public  schools  in  any  city  or  other  municipality,  in  the 
evenings,  for  the  benefit  of  workingmen  and  working- 
women. 
Purchase  2.  The  said  boards  of  education  shall  have  the  power 

necessary 

apparatus,  etc.  to  purchase  books,  stationery  and  other  things  necessary 
and  expedient  to  successfully  conduct  said  lectures,  which 
it  shall  have  the  power  to  direct. 

3.  No  admission  fee  shall  be  charged,  and  at  least  one 
school  in  each  ward  or  subdivision  of  each  city  or  munici- 
pality, where  practicable,  shall  be  designated  by  the  said 
board  of  education  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  and  at  least  one  lecture  shall  be 
delivered  during  each  of  the  months  of  October,  Novem- 
ber, December,  January,  February  and  March  in  each 
year,  which  shall  be  advertised  in  a  daily  or  weekly 
paper  published  in  said  city  or  municipality  at  least  ten 
days  in  advance  of  the  delivery  thereof. 


No  admission 
fee  to  be 
charged. 


AGEICULTTJKAIL    COLLEGE. 


Appointment 
of  students  for 
agricultural 
college. 
P.  L.  1867, 
p.  360,  §  27. 


Additional  free 
scholarships. 
P.  L  1890, 
p.  161,  §  1. 


1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent^ 
at  such  time  and  place  as  the  state  superintendent  may 
appoint,  to  examine  such  candidates  for  state  scholarships 
at  the  agricultural  college  as  may  present  themselves,, 
and  the  candidates  shall  be  subjected  to  such  examination 
as  the  faculty  of  the  said  college  and  the  state  superin- 
tendent shall  prescribe;    and  the  candidates  who  shall 
receive  certificates  of   appointment  to  the  agricultural 
college  in  any  one  county  shall  be  those  who  obtain,  on 
such  examination,  the  highest  average  for  scholarship; 
and  the  number  of  certificates  thus  granted  shall  in  no- 
case  exceed  the  number  of  state  scholarships  to  which 
such  county  is  entitled,  (a) 

2.  In  order  that  students  in  all  schools  in  all  parts  of 
the  state  may  receive  the  stimulus  afforded  by  the  op- 
portunity to  pursue  the  courses  of  study  in  the  state, 


(a)  Each  county  is  entitled  to  as  many  students  as  it  has  representatives  in  the 
legislature.    P.  L.  1864,  Chap.  CCCLXIX.,  \  10. 


SCHOOL  LAW. 

agricultural  college,  and  in  order  to  enable  said  state 
agricultural  college  to  furnish  instructions  gratuitously 
to  students,  residents  of  this  state,  in  its  several  courses 
of  study,  as  special  courses  of  advanced  study  in  the 
public  school  svstem  of  this  state,  there  shall  be  sent  students  from 

'  *  -  ,,  e&ch  assembly 

t«>  the  said  college  students  to  the  number  of  one  each  district. 
year  from  each  assembly  district,  of  this  state,  to  be 
selected  and  designated  as  hereinafter  provided,  who 
shall  receive  gratuitous  instruction  in  any  or  all  of 
the  prescribed  branches  of  study  in  any  of  the  courses 
of  study  of  said  state  college,  under  the  general  powers 
of  supervision  and  control  possessed  by  the  board  of 
visitors  of  said  state  college;  said  students  so  received 
shall  be  residents  of  this  state  and  shall  be  admitted  into 
said  state  college  upon  the  terms  and  subject  to  the  rules 
and  discipline  which  shall  apply  to  all  the. free  students 
of  said  state  college,  and  if  there  should  be  more  than 
one  suitably-prepared  applicant  from  the  same  assembly 
district  in  the  same  year,  such  additional  applicant  may, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  board  of  visitors  of  the  said 
state  agricultural  college,  be  received  upon  any  vacant  students  may 
scholarships  of  any  other  assembly  districts  until  such  vacant  scholar- 
districts  shall  require  such  scholarships,  after  notice  has 
been  served  upon  the  superintendent  of  education  of  the 
county  in  which  such  vacant  assembly  districts  are 
situated. 

3.  Said  students  shall  be  selected  as  follows:  a  com- 
petitive  examination  under  the  direction  of  the  city 
superintendents  and  the  county  superintendent  of  educa- 
tion in  each  county,  shall  be  held  at  the  county  court- 
house in  each  county  of  the  state,  upon  the  first  Saturday 
in  June  in  each  year,  and  the  necessary  traveling,  ex- 
penses of  said  examiners,  not  otherwise  provided  for  by 
law,  on  the  approval  of  the  president  and  secretary  of  the 
board  of  visitors  of  said  state  agricultural  college,  shall 
be  paid  by  said  state  college;  students  who  apply  for 
examination  shall  be  examined  upon  such  subjects  as 
may  be  designated  by  the  faculty  of  said  college,  and  the 
state  board  of  education,  and  the  said  city  and  county 
superintendents  shall  report  to  the  president  of  said 

8 


114  SCHOOL  LAW. 

college  and  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction 
the  names  of  all  such  students  examined  as  in  their 
opinion  are  suitably  prepared  to  enter  said  college,  with 
their  estimate  of  the  order  of  excellence  in  scholarship 
shown-  by  said  students  at  such  preliminary  examina- 
certificates,  by  tion ;  certificates  of  appointment  to  the  state  agricultural 

whom  issued.          ,,  ,     ,,    ,        .  r    ,  . 

college  shall  be  issued  by  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  instruction  to  all  such  students  as  are  so  found 
to  be  qualified  to  enter  said  college,  and  in  case  the 
vacant  scholarships  shall  not  be  sufficient  to  receive  all 
successful  candidates,  preference  to  appointing  to  vacant 
scholarships  shall  be  given  to  successful  candidates  in  the 
order  of  the  excellence  of  their  examination  as  certified 
by  said  superintendents,  and  in  general  the  regulations 
and  provisions  governing  the  conduct  of  such  examina- 
tions and  the  appointment  of  said  students  to  scholarships 
shall  be  subject  to  the  control  of  said  board  of  visitors 
of  said  college. 

^intSftShoid  ^'  -^acn  student  so  appointed  and  admitted  to  said  col- 
state  scholar-  iege  shall  be  regarded  as  holding  a  state  scholarship,  and 
ibid.,  §  3.  f or  each  scholarship  so  held  there  shall  be  paid  as  herein- 
Appropriation  after  provided,  on  the  first  day  of  November  in  each  year, 

from  income  of  .-,-,-,  i 

state  school      to  the  treasurer  of  said  college,  the  same  sum  of  money  as 
the  said  college  is  entitled  to  receive  for  each  scholarship 
established  in  said  college  under  the  existing  state  agri- 
Proviso.  cultural  college  fund ;  provided,  that  such  payment  shall 

be  made  only  out  of  the  income  of  the  fund  for  the 
support  of  public  free  schools  remaining  after  appropria- 
tions heretofore  made  payable  out  of  said  income  are  met. 
co§ede  to  cer-        ^'  -^n  or^er  *°  ascertain  the  number  of  scholarships  for 
student?ber  ^  wnicn  payment  shall  be  made  as  aforesaid,  the  president 
ibid.,  §4.          Of  gaid  college  shall,  in  the  month  of  October,  in  each 
year,  make  his  certificate  in  writing,  setting  forth  the 
names  of  the  students  so  as  aforesaid  appointed  and  then 
in  attendance  at  said  college,  the  assembly  districts  from 
which  they  were  appointed  and  the  classes  in  college  in 
which  they  belong,  or  the  special  courses  of  study  which 
they  are  pursuing,  which  certificate,  when  approved  by 
the  president  of  the  board  of  visitors  of  the  state  agricul- 
tural college,  shall  be  plenary  evidence  of  the  number  of 


SCHOOL  LAW.  115 

scholarships  for  which  payment  shall  be  made,  and  on  certificate  filed 
filing  the  same  with  the  comptroller  of  the  state  he  shall  comptroller, 
draw  his  warrant  upon  the  treasurer  of  the  school  fund 
for  the  sum  of  money  to  which  the  said  college  may 
accordingly  be  entitled,    and   the   said   treasurer   shall 
thereupon  pay  the  same  as  aforesaid. 


Extract  from  an  act  entitled  "An  act  concerning  dis- 
orderly persons"  [Revision  of  1875]. 

7.  Any  person  who  shall  enter  the  buildings  or  go  upon  injury  to 

,       -,     i .        .  /.     i  .     school  property 

the  lands  belonging  to  anv  public  school  district  of  this  or  disturbing 

."  ,r  .  schools. 

state,  or  used  and  occupied  for  school  purposes  by  any 
public  school  in  this  state,  and  shall  break,  injure  or 
deface  such  building  or  any  part  thereof,  or  the  fences 
or  outhouses  belonging  to  or  connected  with  such  building 
or  lands,  or  shall  disturb  the  exercises  of  such  public 
school,  or  molest  or  give  annoyance  to  the  children  attend- 
ing such  school,  or  any  teacher  therein,  shall  be  deemed 
and  adjudged  to  be  a  disorderly  person,  and  may  be  Penalty, 
apprehended  in  the  manner  hereafter  prescribed  in  this 
act,  and  taken  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  of  the 
county  where  such  person  may  be  apprehended;  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  justice  to  commit  such  dis- 
orderly person,  when  convicted  before  him  by  the  con- 
fession of  the  offender,  or  by  the  oath  or  affirmation  of 
one  or  more  witness  or  witnesses,  to  the  county  jail  of 
such  county,  there  to  be  kept  at  hard  labor  for  any  term 
not  exceeding  thirty  days. 


Extracts  from  an  act  entitled  "An  act  for  the  punish- 
ment of  crimes"  [Revision  of  1898]. 

28.  Any  member  or  officer  of  any  state,  county  or  city  Penalty  for 
government,  or  any  member  of  any  public  board,  associa-  ] 
tion  or  commission,  who  shall  hereafter  solicit  or  receive, 
either  directly  or  indirectly,  any  money  or  valuable  thing, 
reward  or  commission  for  his  vote  in  the  appointment  or 
selection  of  any  person  or  persons  to  any  position  in  any 


116 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Penalty  for 
officers  having 
an  interest  in 
furnishing 
supplies. 


Penalty  for 
bribery. 


Penalty  for 
exceeding  ap- 
propriation. 


department  of  any  public  body  aforesaid,  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  punished  accordingly, 
and  be  forever  thereafter  disqualified  from  holding  any 
office  of  profit,  trust  or  emolument  in  this  state. 

29.  Any  employe  or  person  having  the  whole  or  partial 
control  or  management  of  any  institution,  the  moneys  for 
the  support  of  which  are  drawn  in  whole  or  in  part  from 
the  treasury  of  the  state  or  of  any  county  or  city  thereof, 
shall  be  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in  furnishing 
any  goods,  chattels,  supplies  or  property  of  any  kind 
whatsoever,  to  or  for  the  use  of  any  such  institution,  shall 
be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

30.  Any  person  who  shall  directly  or  indirectly  give, 
or  receive,  or  promise,  contract  or  agree  to  give  or  receive, 
any  sum  or  sums  of  money,  or  any  goods,  chattels,  gift, 
lands  or  real  estate,  or  any  other  thing,  present  or  reward 
whatsoever,  to  secure  or  obtain,  or  to  give  out  or  grant 
the  printing  of  blanks,  notices,  advertisements,  or  any 
other  printing,  or  any  other  work  or  thing,  connected 
writh,  or  in  or  appertaining  to,  any  office  or  department 
of  the  government  of  this  state,  or  any  office  or  depart- 
ment of  the  government  of  any  county,  city,  town,  town- 
ship, borough  or  other  place  in  this  state,  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor. 

31.  Any  board  of  chosen  freeholders  or  any  township 
Committee,  or  any  board  of  aldermen  or  common  council- 
men,  or  any  board  of  education,  or  any  board  of  commis- 
sioners of  any  county,  township,  city,  town  or  borough  in 
this  state,  or  any  committee  of  any  such  board  or  commis- 
sion, which,  or  any  member  thereof  who  shall  disburse, 
order  or  vote  for  the  disbursement  of  public  moneys,  in 
excess  of  the  appropriation  respectively  to  any  such  board 
or  committee,  or  which  board  or  committee,  or  any  mem- 
ber thereof,  who  shall  incur  obligations  in  excess  of  the 
appropriation  and  limit  of  expenditure  provided  by  lawT 
for  the  purpose  respectively  of  any  such  board  or  com- 
mittee thus  disbursing,  ordering  or  voting  for  the  dis- 
bursement and  expenditure  of  public  moneys,  or  thus  in- 
curring obligations  in  excess  of  the  amount  appropriated 
and  limit  of  expenditure  as  now  or  hereafter  appropri- 


SCHOOL  LAW.  117 

atcil   and   Hmiri'd  by  law,   shall  be  jointly  or  severally 
guilty  of  a  misdemcanm1;   provided,  nothing  herein  shall  Proviso. 
prevent  any  board  of  education  from  keeping  open  the 
public  schools. 

:\-2.  Anv  member  of  any  board  of  chosen  freeholders.  Penalty  for 

i  .  .     '  n       f      i  i  public  officer 

or  anv  township  committee,  or  any  board  01  aldermen  being  con- 

.,  ,       -       T  n        -,    cerned  in  any 

or  common  council,  or  any  board  01  education  or  school  public  con- 

,,  .     .  ,,  tract. 

trustees  in  any  city,  or  any  board  01  commissioners  of 
any  county,  township,  city,  town,  borough  or  school  dis- 
trict in  this  state,  who  shall  be  directly  or  indirectly  con- 
cerned in  any  agreement  or  contract  for  the  construction 
of  any  bridge  or  building  of  any  kind  whatsoever,  or  any 
improvement  whatever  to  be  constructed  or  made  for  the 
public  use  or  at  public  expense,  or  shall  be  a  party  to  any 
contract  or  agreement,  either  as  principal  or  surety,  be- 
tween the  county,  township,  city,  town,  borough  or  school 
district,  as  the  case  may  be,  and  any  other  party,  or  shall 
be  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in  furnishing  any 
goods,  chattels,  supplies  or  property  of  any  kind  what- 
soever, to  or  for  the  county,  township,  city,  town,  borough 
or  school  district,  the  contract  or  agreement  for  which  is 
made,  or  the  expense  or  consideration  of  which  is  paid, 
by  the  board,  council  or  committee  of  which  such  member 
is  a  part,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

33.  When  bids  or  proposals  for  supplies  or  for  public  Manner  of 
works  or  buildings  or  other  public  purposes  are  asked  for  andereceS5ng 
by  boards  of  managers  having  charge  of  any  of  the  public  p 
institutions  of  this  state,  or  by  boards  of  freeholders,  com- 
mon councils,  boards  of  works  or  other  bodies  having  con- 
trol of  the  counties,  cities  or  other  municipal  bodies  of 
this  state  or  any  department  of  the  same,  or  any  com- 
mittees representing  such  boards  or  bodies,  such  boards 
or  bodies  or  committees  shall  proceed  in  the  manner  fol- 
lowing, to  wit:  said  boards  or  governing  bodies  or  com- 
mittees shall  give  public  notice  at  the  time  such  bids  or 
proposals  are  advertised,  of  the  time  and  place  when  such 
bids  or  proposals  shall  be  received,  and  at  such  time  and 
place  the  said  board  or  governing  body  or  committee, 
being  in  session,  shall  receive  such  bids,  and  thereupon 
immediately  proceed  to  unseal  the  same  and  publicly 


118  SCHOOL  LAW. 

announce  the  contents  in  the  presence  of  the  parties 
bidding  or  their  agents,  providing  said  parties  or  agents 
choose  to  be  then  and  there  present,  and  also  make  proper 
record  of  the  prices  and  terms  upon  the  minutes  of  the 
body;  no  bids  shall  be  received  previous  to  the  hour 
designated  in  the  public  notice,  and  none  shall  be  re- 
ceived thereafter;  and  any  failure  to  comply  with  the 
provisions  hereof  shall  be  a  misdemeanor. 


An  Act  for  the  creation  of  a  state  board  of  children's 
guardians,  and  for  defining  their  duties  and  powers 
with  respect  to  the  maintenance,  care  and  general 
supervision  over  indigent,  helpless,  dependent,  aban- 
doned, friendless  and  poor  children  now  or  hereafter 
to  become  public  charges  of  this  state,  approved 
March  twenty-fourth,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  ninety-nine. 

BE  IT  EXACTED  by  the  Senate  and  General  Assembly 
of  the  State  of  New  Jersey: 

"""  ^nere  snaH  be  appointed  by  the  governor  seven 
guardians ;  ap-  persons,  two  of  whom  shall  be  women,  who  shall  be  known 

pomtment  and  r  i      /•     i  -i  -i         »  T 

term.  as  the  state  board  of  children  s  guardians,  two  01  whom 

shall  hold  office  for  two  years,  two  for  four  years  and 
three  for  six  years,  as  shall  be  indicated  by  the  governor 
on  making  their  appointment,  and  thereafter  all  appoint- 
ments, except  to  fill  vacancies  in  the  said  board,  shall  be 

Expenses  met,  for  six  years,  and  shall  be  made  by  the  governor;  said 
board  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their  time  or 
services  but  the  actual  and  necessary  expenses  of  each 
of  them  while  engaged  in  the  performance  of  the  duties 
of  his  or  her  office. 

Vacancies.  2.  In  case  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  any  member, 

or  in  case  any  member  ceases  to  be  a  resident  or  citizen 
of  this  state,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  governor  to  fill 
such  vacancy  for  the  unexpired  term  only,  and  any  mem- 
ber may  be  removed  by  the  governor  for  cause. 

du^eofabodard  3*  ^a^  k°ar(l  °f  children's  guardians  shall  have  and 
it  is  hereby  vested  with  power  to  adopt  a  seal  and 


SCHOOL  LAW.  119 

reasonable  rules  and  regulations ;  said  board  of  children's 
guardians  shall  have  the  care  of  and  maintain  a  general 
supervision  over  all  indigent,  helpless,  dependent,  aban- 
doned, friendless  and  poor  children  who  may  now  be 
or  who  may  hereafter  become  public  charges;  and  said 
board  shall  have  the  care  of  and  maintain  supervision 
over  all  children  adjudged  public  charges,  who  may  now 
be  in  the  charge,  custody  and  control  of  any  county 
asylum,  county  home,  almshouse,  poorhouse,  charitable 
institution,  home  or  family  to  which  such  child  or  chil- 
dren may  be  or  have  been  committed,  confined,  adopted, 
apprenticed,  indentured  or  bound  out;  said  board  shall 
have  and  is  hereby  vested  with  power  to  appoint  such 
agents,  one  being  a  woman,  and  other  subordinate  officers 
as  it  may  deem  necessary;  said  board  shall  fix  their 
compensation,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  governor, 
and  the  amount  paid  for  compensation  of  such  agents 
and  other  officers  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  appropriated 
by  the  legislature  for  the  purpose. 

4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  board  of  children's  further  duty. 

..  .  /.     -,  .  ft   Chap.  84. 

guardians,  upon  receiving  notice  01  the  commitment  01  P.L.  1900,31. 
the  child  as  a  public  charge,  to  place  such  child  in  the 
care  of  some  family  within  this  state,  with  or  without 
the  payment  of  board,  and  with  or  without  indenture; 
and  it  shall  further  be  the  duty  of  such  state  board  of 
children's  guardians  to  place  such  child  in  the  care  of 
a  family  of  the  religious  faith  of  the  parent  or  parents 
of  such  child,  and  during  the  period  in  which  the  state 
board  of  children's  guardians  is  seeking  such  family  for 
such  child,  and  until  such  family  is  secured  as  herein- 
before provided,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  board 
of  children's  guardians  to  place  such  child  in  the  custody 
and  care  of  an  institution  in  this  state  for  the  care  of 
children;  provided,  that  the  institution  in  which  the  Proviso, 
child  is  placed  shall  be  one  maintained  for  children  of 
the  religious  faith  of  the  parent  or  parents  of  such  child 
when  such  an  institution  exists  therein ;  in  case  no  insti- 
tution of  such  religious  faith  exists  in  this  state,  then  the 
said  board  of  children's  guardians  shall  use  its  discretion 
in  providing  an  institution  for  the  care  of  such  child  until 


120 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Proviso. 


Visitations. 


Reports. 


Funds  pro- 
vided by 
chosen  free- 
holders. 


Provision  for 
expenses  in 
annual  budget. 


Duty  of  over- 
seer of  poor. 


a  family  has  been  secured ;  provided,  that  nothing  in  this 
act  contained  shall  be  construed  as  giving  such  state  board 
any  control  over  or  supervision  of  any  child  heretofore  or 
hereafter  placed  in  or  bound  out  by  any  home  or  institu- 
tion created  under  the  laws  of  this  state,  and  supported 
or  maintained  without  assistance  from  the  state  or  any 
municipality  thereof,  or  of  any  child  heretofore  or  here- 
after duly  committed  to  a  duly  incorporated  charitable 
institution  in  this  state  by  virtue  of  an  act  approved 
March  twenty-fifth,  anno  domini  one  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  eighty-one,  entitled  "A  supplement  to  an 
act  entitled  'An  act  for  the  settlement  and  relief  of  the 
poor'  [Eevision],  approved  March  twenty-seventh,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-four." 

5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  board  of  children's 
guardians  to  visit,  by  its  agent  or  agents,  quarterly,  all 
children  who  may  be  committed  under  this  act,  and  also 
any  home,  asylum,  institution  or  private  family  where 
any  such  child  or  children  may  be  placed;    said  board 
shall  report  from  time  to  time  to  the  governor,  and  make 
a  yearly  report  to  the  governor  and  legislature  of  the 
state,  showing  in  detail  the  work  of  said  board  for  that 
time. 

6.  The  county  board  of  chosen  freeholders  of  the  re- 
spective counties  of  this  state  shall  annually  hereafter 
provide  sufficient  funds  for  the  objects  of  this  act  in 
their  respective  counties  for  the  support,  care  and  educa- 
tion and  maintenance  of  any  child  or  children  adjudged 
to  be  a  public  charge,   and  who  shall  become  thereby 
wards  of  the  state  board  of  children's  guardians;    said 
sum  shall  not  be  less  than  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  per 
week  for  each  child. 

7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  proper  officers  in  any 
county,  township,  borough,  city,  or  other  municipality  in 
any  county  in  the  state  having  jurisdiction  to  provide  in 
their  annual  budget  for  the  expense  of  maintaining  such 
children  as  aforesaid;  said  sum  not  to  be  less  than  one 
dollar  and  fifty  cents  per  week  for  each  child. 

8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  overseer  of  the  poor  or 
other  officer  in  any  county,  city,  township,  borough  or 


SCHOOL  LAW.  121 

other  municipality  in  any  county  in  the  state  having 
jurisdiction  and  power  to  do  so,  to  commit  such  child  or 
children  to  the  care  of  the  keeper  of  the  almshouse,  or 
such  other  institution  where  he  would  commit  such  child 
or  children,  for  the  term  of  thirty  days  after  the  date  of 
such  commitment;  thereupon  he  shall  forthwith  give  a 
written  notice  of  such  commitment  to  the  state  board  of 
children's  guardians,  which  notice  shall  contain  a  de- 
scription of  such  child,  or  children,  embracing  its  or 
their  name,  age,  sex,  religion,  faith  of  its  or  their  parent 
or  parents,  date  of  commitment  and  such  other  informa- 
tion as  such  officer  has  been  able  to  ascertain:  upon  such  wards  of  state 

guardians. 

commitment  being  made  by  such  officer  as  aforesaid,  such 
child  or  children  shall  immediately  become  the  ward  or 
wards  of  the  state  board  of  children's  guardians. 

9.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  board  of  children's  children 

.,    ,  .  placed  as  soon 

guardians,  upon  receipt  of  the  notice  of  the  commitment  as  possible, 
of  any  child  as  hereinbefore  provided,  to  place  such  child 
or  children  in  the  manner  hereinbefore  provided  as  soon 
as  possible  thereafter ;  and  in  no  case  shall  said  child  or 
children  who  may  hereafter  be  committed  as  public 
charges,  who  may  be  over  the  age  of  twelve  months,  be 
confined  in  such  almshouse  for  a  longer  period  than 
thirty  days,  and  the  keeper  of  such  almshouse  shall  sur- 
render such  child  or  children  to  the  care  and  custody  of 
the  state  board  of  children's  guardians  at  any  time  within 
thirty  days,  when  surrender  is  demanded. 

10.  The  state  board  of  children's  guardians  may.  in  its  Return  cnii- 

T.  T-ii  i  «i?  i      drentoparents. 

discretion,  return  any  child  or  children  becoming  wards 
of  said  state  board  to  the  parent  or  parents  or  other 
relative  agreeing  to  assume  the  care  and  maintenance  of 
such  child  or  children  or  of  sufficient  ability  to  do  so. 

11.  The  state  board  of  children's  guardians  may,  in  until  effective 

,     .      , .  .  ,,  organization  is 

their  discretion,  lor  the  purpose  of  effective  organization,  completed, 
require  the  continuance  of  children   in   almshouses   or 
other  places  where  such  children  may  be  kept  for   a 
period  not  longer  than  six  months  after  the  passage  of 
this  act. 


122 


SCHOOL  LAW. 


Remain  as 
guardians. 


Act,  how  con- 
strued. 


12.  The  state  board  of  children's  guardians  shall  re- 
main the  guardian  of  all  children  indentured,  bound  out 
or  put  forth,  who  may  now  be  or  may  hereafter  become 
public  charges. 

13.  This  act  shall  be  construed  liberally  and  for  the 
benefit  of  any  child  or  children  so  becoming  ward  or 
wards  of  such  state  board  of  children's  guardians   as 
aforesaid. 


Rules  and  Regulations 


PRESCRIBED    BY    THE 


State  Board  of  Education 


(123) 


RULES  AND  REGULATIONS. 


TEACHEKS'   CEKTIFICATES. 

I.  RULES  RELATING  TO  ALL  CERTIFICATES. 

1.  Xo  person  shall  be  employed  as  a  teacher  by  any  board  of 
education  unless  he  shall  hold  a  certificate  in  full  force  and  effect 
in  this  State  at  the  time  he  shall  begin  teaching  under  a  contract 
entered  into  between  a  board  of  education  and  such  teacher.    Any 
person  accepting  a  position  as  teacher  in  any  school  shall,  before 
entering  upon  the  duties  of  such  position,  exhibit  his  certificate 
to  the  county  or  District  Superintendent  of  Schools  of  the  county 
or  district  in  which  such  school  shall  be  situate. 

2.  The  District  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  each  school 
district  situate  in  a  township,  incorporated  town  or  borough  shall, 
within  ten  days  after  a  contract  with  a  teacher  shall  have  been 
made,  forward  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  a  copy 
of  such  contract  if  the  same  shall  be  in  writing,  but  if  such  con- 
tract shall  have  been  made  under  rules  adopted  by  the  board  of 
education,  said  district  clerk  shall  report  to  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  the  name  of  such  teacher,  the  time  for  which 
he  shall  have  been  employed,  the  amount  of  salary  and  the  kind, 
grade  and  date  of  his  certificate.     The  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools  shall  file  such  contracts  and  reports,  and  keep  an  accurate 
record  thereof. 

3.  Each  board  of  education  which  shall  adopt  rules  governing 
the  employment  of  teachers  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
section  100  of  the  School  law,  shall  file  a  copy  of  such  rules  with 
the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

4.  Any  person  may,  between  the  dates  of  the  regular  examina- 
tions, at  the  discretion  of  the  State  Board  of  Examiners  or  of  the 
County  or  the  District  Board  of  Examiners  of  the  county  or  dis- 
trict in  which  the  school  he  intends  to  teach  shall  be  situate,  be 
granted  a  provisional  certificate  good  in  the  subjects  to  be  taught 
until  the  next  regular  examination.    A  provisional  certificate  shall 
not  be  renewed  or  extended. 

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126  KULES   AND  BEGULATIONS 

5.  Each  applicant  for  a  teacher's  certificate  shall  file  testimo- 
nials as  to  his  moral  character  and  scholarship,  and  in  case  of 
previous  experience,  testimonials  as  to  his  success  in  teaching ;  and 
shall  present  a  written  statement  as  to  the  places  in  which  he  shall 
have  taught,  and  the  term  of  service  in  each.    No  certificate  shall 
be  issued  until  the  applicant  therefor  shall  have  filed  such  testi- 
monials and  statement. 

6.  No  certificate  shall  be  issued  to  any  person  whose  percentage 
in  any  subject  covered  by  the  examination  shall  fall  below  70. 

7.  Any  board  of  examiners  may  accept  any  certificate  of  any 
grade  in  full  force  and  effect,  or  which  shall  have  been  in  full  force 
and  effect  in  this  State  within  one  year  next  preceding  th©  date 
of  the  examination,  in  lieu  of  an  examination  in  the  academic 
subjects  covered  by  said  certificate;  provided.,  said  certificate  shall 
show  a  general  average  of  not  less  than  75  per  cent. 

8.  The  State  Board  of  Examiners  may,  subject  to  appeal  to  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  revoke  for  cause  any  certificate  granted 
by  any  board  of  examiners. 

9.  Any  County  or  District  Board  of  Examiners  may,  subject  to 
appeal,  revoke  any  certificate  granted  by  it. 

10.  Each  board  of  examiners  shall  keep  a  list  of  all  certificates 
issued  by  it,  together  with  the  names  and  addresses  of  the  teachers 
to  whom  they  shall  have  been  issued,  and  shall  transmit  to  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  within  thirty  days 
after  each  regular  or  special  examination  a  copy  of  such  list, 
which  list  shall  be  printed  in  the  annual  report  of  that  officer. 

11.  In  any  examination  for  a  teacher's  certificate  the  diploma 
of  a  university  or  college  authorized  to  confer  degrees  may  be 
accepted  in  lieu  of  an  examination  in  the  subjects  prescribed  for 
such  examination ;   provided,  that  the  course  of  study  covered  by 
said  diploma  shall  include  said  prescribed  subjects  or  their  equiva- 
lent, and  shall  not  have  been  pursued  through  correspondence. 
The  State  Board  of  Examiners  may,  in  lieu  of  an  examination  in 
any  subject  or  subjects,  accept  such  credentials  as  it  may  deem 
conclusive  evidence  of  scholarship  and  professional  qualification; 
provided,  such  action  shall  not  be  inconsistent  with  the  provisions 
of  Kule  14. 

12.  Special  certificates  may  be  granted  to  kindergartners,  and 
to  teachers  of  physical  training,  music,  drawing,  manual  training, 
ancient  languages,  modern  languages  and  commercial  branches. 


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II.     STATE    CERTIFICATES. 

13.  The  State  Board  of  Examiners  shall  grant  first,  second  and 
third-grade  State  certificates,  and  special  State  certificates  for  the 
subjects  authorized  under  Eule  12. 

14.  The  State  Board  of  Examiners  may  grant  a  second-grade 
State  certificate,  valid  for  two  years,  to  the  holder  of  a  diploma 
of  any  normal  school  or  teachers'  college,  or  a  permanent  certifi- 
cate to  teach  in  another  State  and  valid  as  a  State  certificate 
therein,-  when  the  course  of   study  of   such  normal   school  or 
teachers'  college  or  the  requirements  for  such  certificate  shall  be, 
in  the  judgment  of  said  board,  equivalent  to  those  required  for 
a  State  certificate  to  teach  in  this  State ;  provided,  that  such  other 
State  shall  grant  reciprocal  privileges  to  those  holding  similar 
diplomas  or  certificates  issued  in  this  State.  '  After  the  expiration 
of  said  two  years,   the  said  normal  diploma,   teachers'   college 
diploma,  or  permanent  State  certificate,  in  virtue  of  which  the 
aforesaid  second-grade  State  certificate  was  issued,  may  be  indorsed 
by  the  State  Board  of  Examiners;    provided,  the  holder  thereof 
shall  have  taught  not  less  than  two  years  in  this  State,  shall  have 
given  satisfactory  evidence  of  efficiency  and  success  as  a  teacher 
and  shall  file  approved  testimonials.      When  so   indorsed   such 
diploma  or  certificate  shall  have  the  same  force  and  effect  as  if 
issued  in  this  State.    Normal  diplomas,  issued  in  States  not  having 
a  State  system  of  certification,  and  which  are,  therefore,  unable 
to  grant  said  reciprocal  privileges,  may  be  indorsed  as  hereinabove 
provided. 

15.  There  shall  be  two  examinations  for  State  certificates  each 
year.     Said  examinations  shall  be  held  in  the  State  House,  at 
Trenton,  on  the  first  Thursday,  Friday  and  Saturday  of  June  and 
December  respectively,  and  the  questions  used  shall  be  approved 
by  each  member  of  the  board  of  examiners.     The  subjects  shall 
be  assigned  in  the  following  order : 

Thursday— (1)  Geometry,  (2)  Literature,  (3)  Chemistry,  (4) 
Botany. 

Friday— (1)  Drawing,  (2)  Psychology,  (3)  School  Law,  (4) 
Manual  Training,  (5)  Principles  and  Practice  of  the  Kinder- 
garten, (0)  Music,  (7)  Ancient  and  Modern  Languages,  (8) 
Bookkeeping,  (9)  Commercial  Arithmetic. 


128  KULES  AND  REGULATIONS 

Saturday — (1)  Physical  Training,  (2)  Theory  and  Practice  of 
Teaching,  (3)  History  of  Education,  (4)  Science  of  Education, 
(5)  Stenography,  (6)  Business  Practice. 

16.  An  applicant  for  a  third-grade  State  certificate  shall  be  not 
less  than  twenty  years  of  age,  and  shall  not  be  required  to  have 
had  previous  experience  in  teaching.     The  examination  shall  be 
the  same  as  that  required  for  a  first-grade  county  certificate,  and, 
in  addition  thereto,  Psychology,  Plane  and  Solid  Geometry,  Lit- 
erature, Botany  and  Free-hand  Drawing,  or  in  lieu  of  one  or 
more  of  said  subjects,  such  other  subject  or  subjects  as  the  State 
Board  of  Examiners  shall  regard  as  the  equivalent  thereof.     This 
certificate  shall  remain  in  force  for  seven  years  from  its  date, 
and  shall  be  valid  as  a  license  to  teach  in  any  school  in  the  State. 
It  may  be  renewed  without  re-examination.     (See  Rule  19.) 

17.  An  applicant  for  a  second-grade  State  certificate  shall  be 
not  less  than  twenty-one  years  of  age,  with  an  experience  in  teach- 
ing of  not  less  than  two  years.    The  examination  shall  be  the  same 
as  that  required  for  the  third-grade  State   certificate,   and,   in 
addition  thereto,  Chemistry,  Science  of  Education,  Manual  Train- 
ing and  Physical  Training,  or  in  lieu  of  one  or  more  of  the  said 
subjects,  such  other  subject  or  subjects  as  the  State  Board  of 
Examiners  shall  regard  as  the  equivalent- thereof.     This  certificate 
shall  remain  in  force  for  ten  years  from  its  date,  and  shall  be 
valid  as  a  license  to  teach  in  any  school  in  the  State.     It  may  be 
renewed  without  re-examination.     This  shall  be  the  highest  grade 
certificate  issued  for  class  teaching  as  distinguished  from  super- 
vision.    (See  Rule  19.) 

18.  An  applicant  for  a  first-grade  State  certificate  shall  be  not 
less  than  twenty-five  years  of  age,  with  an  experience  in  teaching 
of  not  less  than  five  years,  and  shall  present  satisfactory  evidence 
of  efficiency  and  success  as  a  superintendent,  supervising  principal, 
principal  of  a  graded  school  employing  not  less  than  five  assistant 
teachers,  or  in  such  other  capacity  as  the  State  Board  of  Examiners 
shall  regard  as  the  equivalent  thereof.     The  examination  shall  be 
the  same  as  for  the  second-grade  State  certificate.     The  first-grade 
State  certificate  shall  remain  in  force  during  the  life  of  the  holder, 
and  shall  be  valid  as  a  license  to  teach  in  any  public  school  in  the 
State.     (See  Rule  19.) 

19.  Any  person  desiring  to  take  an  examination  in  any  subject 
or   subjects   in  lieu   of  those   specified,   shall  make    application 


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therefor,  addressed  to  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Exam- 
iners, Trenton,  X.  J.,  at  least  four  weeks  prior  to  the  date  of  the 
examination. 

20.  Graduates  of  the  State  Xormal  School  who  shall  have  com- 
pleted the  post-graduate  course  shall  be  granted  formal  School 
life  certificates.     Graduates  who  shall  have  completed  the  three- 
years'  course  shall  be  granted  Xormal  School  certificates  which 
shall  remain  in  force  for  ten  years  from  the  date  thereof.     Gradu- 
ates of  the  three-years'  course,  with  a*a  experience  in  teaching  of 
not  less  than  two  years  after  graduation,  may  be  granted  Normal 
School  life  certificates  upon  presenting  to  the   State  Board  of 
Examiners    satisfactory    evidence   of   their    success    as    teachers. 
Xormal  School  certificates  shall  be  valid  as  licenses  to  teach  in 
any  public  school  in  the  State. 

21.  A  graduate  of  the  former  elementary  course  of  the  State 
Xormal  School  may  be  granted  a  Normal  life  certificate  upon 
passing  an  examination  in  Physics,  Chemistry,  Literature,  Geome- 
try, History  of  Education,  Science  of  Education  and  School  Law 
of  Xew  Jersey,  or  in  lieu  of  one  or  more  of  said  subjects,  such 
other  subject  or  subjects  as  the  State  Board  of  Examiners  shall 
regard  as  the  equivalent  thereof.     (See  Rule  19.) 

22.  A  special  kindergarten  State  certificate,  or  a  State  certificate 
to  teach  ancient  languages  or  modern  languages,  may  be  granted 
to  any  person  holding  a  diploma  from  a  high  school,  or  any  form 
of  teacher's  certificate,  other  than  special,  which  shall  be  valid  in 
Xew  Jersey,  or  which  shall  have  been  in  full  force  and  effect  in 
this  State  within  one  year  next  preceding  the  date  of  the  exam- 
ination,  on  passing   an   examination   in  History   of   Education, 
Psychology,  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching,   School  Law  of 
Xew  Jersey  and  the  special  subject  to  be  taught,  and,  in  addition 
thereto,  for  a  kindergarten  certificate,  an  examination  in  Drawing. 
A  special  State  certificate  to  teach  Drawing,  Manual  Training, 
Physical  Training  or  Music,  may  be  granted  to  any  person  on 
passing  an  examination  in  Psychology,   History  of  Education, 
School  Law  of  Xew  Jersey  and  the  special  subject  to  be  taught, 
and,  in  addition  thereto,  for  a  certificate  to  teach  Drawing,  an 
examination  in  Plane  Geometry.     A  special  State  certificate  to 
teach  commerical  branches  may  be  granted  to  any  person  on  pass- 
ing an  examination  in  Psychology,  School -Law  of  Xew  Jersey, 
Bookkeeping,  Commercial  Arithmetic,  Stenography,  Theory  and 

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130  EULES   AND  REGULATIONS 

Practice  of  Teaching,  History  of  Education  and  Business  Prac- 
tice. All  special  State  certificates  shall  be  valid  for  a  term  of 
five  years  from  their  date,  and  may  be  renewed  without  re- 
examination. 

III.      COUNTY    CERTIFICATES. 

23.  Each  County  Board  of  Examiners  shall  grant  first,  second 
and  third-grade  county  certificates  and  special  county  certificates 
for  the  subjects  authorized  under  Rule  12. 

24.  There  shall  be  three  examinations  for  county  certificates 
each  year,  at  such  place  or  places  in  the  county  as  shall  be  desig- 
nated by  the  County  Superintendent.    Said  examinations  shall  be 
held  on  the  first  Friday  and  Saturday  in  October,  February  and 
May  respectively;    provided,  that  when  any  of  these  days  shall 
fall  upon  a  legal  holiday  the  examination  shall  be  postponed  one 
wreek;    provided  further,  that  the  County  Superintendent  may 
designate  some  other  day  than  Saturday  as  a  regular  day  for 
examinations  without  charge  to  applicants.     The  subjects  shall 
t>e  assigned  in  the  following  order: 

Friday — (1)  Penmanship,  (2)  Orthography,  (3)  Arithmetic, 
(4)  Geography,  (5)  Grammar,  (6)  Reading. 

Saturday — Third  Grade — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teach- 
ing, (2)  School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  Temperance  Physiology, 
(4)  United  States  History,  (5)  Elementary  Civics,  (6)  Elemen- 
tary Composition. 

Second  Grade — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching,  (2) 
School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  History  of  Education,  (4)  Physi- 
ology, (5)  Composition,  (6)  Bookkeeping,  (7)  Elementary 
Algebra. 

First  Grade — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching,  (2)  School 
Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  History  of  Education,  (4)  Algebra,  (5) 
Civics,  (6)  Physics,  (7)  General  History,  (8)  Plane  Geometry. 

Special  Certificates — Saturday — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of 
Teaching,  (2)  School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  Kindergarten,  (4) 
Drawing,  (5)  Manual  Training,  (6)  Physical  Training,  (7) 
Music,  (8)  Ancient  Languages,  (9)  Modern  Languages,  (10)  In- 
ventional  Geometry. 

25.  If  an  applicant  shall  fail  to  complete  at  one  session  of  the 
board  of  examiners  all  the  subjects  required  to  secure  a  certificate, 


FOE    SCHOOL    OFFICERS.  131 

the  remaining  subject  or  subjects  may  be  taken  at  a  subsequent 
examination. 

26.  Any  teacher  holding  a  certificate  in  full  force  and  effect 
may  attend  not  more  than  two  subsequent  .examinations  for  the 
purpose  of  improving  his  general  average  or  his  percentage  in 
any  subject  or  subjects.     Any  improvement  shall  be  recorded  on 
the  original  certificate  but  shall  not  prolong  the  term  for  which 
it  shall  have  been  issued. 

27.  All  county  certificates  shall  bear  date  of  the  first  day  of  the 
month  next  succeeding  the  examination,  and  all  certificates  now  in 
force  shall  remain  in  force  until  the  first  day  of  the  month  next 
succeeding  the  date  of  the  expiration  of  the  term  for  which  they 
shall  have  been  issued. 

28.  For  the  purpose  of  classification  an  ungraded  school  shall 
be  one  in  which  but  a  single  teacher  is  employed ;  a  graded  school 
shall  be  one  which  is  divided  into  at  least  two  departments;    a 
primary  school  or  primary  department  shall  be  one  having  the 
first  four  years  of  the  usual  school  curriculum  consisting  of  sub- 
jects similar  to  those  prescribed  for  the  primary  department  of 
the  State  Model  School;    a  grammar  school  or  grammar  depart- 
ment shall  be  one  having  the  second  four  years  of  the  usual  school 
curriculum  consisting  of  subjects  similar  to  those  prescribed  for 
the  grammar  department  of  the   State  Model  School;    a  high 
school  or  high  school  department  shall  be  one  having  the  third 
four  years  of  the  usual  school  curriculum  consisting  of  subjects 
similar  to  those  prescribed  for  the  high  school  department  of  the 
State  Model  School. 

29.  An  applicant  for  a  third-grade  county  certificate  shall  be 
not  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  shall  not  be  required  to 
have  had  previous  experience  in  teaching.     Said  applicant  shall 
be  examined  in  Orthography,  Reading,  Penmanship,  Geography, 
Arithmetic,  English  Grammar,  Elementary  Composition,  United 
States  History,  Elementary  Civics,  Temperance  Physiology  and 
the  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching.     The  third-grade  county 
certificate  shall  continue  in  force  for  two  years  from  its  date, 
and  shall  be  valid  as  a  license  to  teach  in  any  ungraded  school 
or  primary  department  in  the  county  in  which  it  shall  be  issued. 
Said  certificate  may  be  given  two  renewals;    provided,  it  shall 
show  a  general  average  of  not  less  than  75  per  cent,  and  the 
holder  thereof  shall  pass  on  each   renewal   an   examination   in 


132  KULES  A:NTD  REGULATIONS 

Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching  and  School  Law  of  New  Jersey- 
The  third-grade  county  certificate  shall  not  be  issued  to  the  same 
person  more  than  three  times  unless  he  shall  secure  the  profes- 
sional certificate.  (See  Rule  36.) 

30.  An  applicant  for  the  second-grade  county  certificate  shall 
he  not  less  than  nineteen  years  of  age,  with  an  experience  in 
teaching  of  not  less  than  one  year.     The  examination  shall  be  the 
same  as  that  required  for  the  third-grade  county  certificate,  and, 
in  addition  thereto,  Composition,  Physiology,  Elementary  Alge- 
bra, School  Law  of  New  Jersey  and  Bookkeeping.    Said  certificate 
shall  continue  in  force  for  three  years  from  its  date,  and  shall  be 
valid  as  a  license  to  teach  in  any  ungraded  school  or  primary  or 
grammar  department  in  the  county  in  which  it  shall  be  issued. 
The  second-grade  county  certificate  may  be  renewed ;  provided,  it 
shall  show  a  general  average  of  not  less  than  75  per  cent.,  and 
the  holder  thereof  shall  pass  on  each  renewal  an  examination  in 
Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching  and  History  of  Education. 

31.  An  applicant  for  the  first-grade  county  certificate  shall  be- 
not  less  than  twenty  years  of  age,  with  an  experience  in  teaching 
of  not  less  than  two  years.     The  examination  shall  be  the  same 
as  that  required  for  the  second-grade  county  certificate,  and,  in 
addition  thereto,  Algebra,  Plane  Geometry,  Physics,  General  His- 
tory, History  of  Education  and  Civics,  or  in  lieu  of  one  or  more 
of  said  subjects,  such  other  subject  or  subjects  as  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  shall  regard  as  the  equivalent 
thereof.     Said  certificate  shall  continue  in  force  for  five  years- 
from  its  date,  and  shall  be  valid  as  a  license  to  teach  in  any 
school  or  department  in  the  county  in  which  it  shall  be  issued.. 
The  first-grade  county  certificate  may  be  renewed  in  the  county 
in   which    it    shall   have   been   issued   without   re-examination;, 
provided,  it  shall  show  a  general  average  of  not  less  than  75- 
per  cent     (See  Rule  32.) 

32.  Any  person  desiring  to  take  an  examination  in  any  subject 
or  subjects  in  lieu  of  those  specified  for  a  first-grade  county  cer- 
tificate,  shall  make  application  therefor  to  the  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction  at  least  four  weeks  prior  to  the 
date  of  the  examination. 

33.  Upon  each  county  certificate  shall  be  written  the  percentage 
in  each  subject  and  the  general  average,  each  marked  upon  a  scale 
of  100. 


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34.  When  a  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  ascertain 
•that  any  teacher  is,  through  aptitude  and  acquirement,  especially 
qualified  to  give  instruction  in  particular  branches  or  depart- 
ments, he  shall  record  the  fact  on  such  teacher's  certificate. 

35.  A  special  kindergarten  county  certificate,  or  a  county  cer- 
tificate to  teach  ancient  languages  or  modern  languages,  may  be 
granted  to  any  person  holding  a  diploma  from  a  high  school  or 
any  form  of  teacher's  certificate,  other  than  special,  which  shall 
be  valid  in  .New  Jersey,  or  which  shall  have  been  in  full  force 
and  effect  in  this  State  within  one  year  next  preceding  the  date 
of  the  examination,   on  passing  a   satisfactory  examination   in 
Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching,  School  Law  of  New  Jersey  and 
the  special  subject  to  be  taught,  and,  in  addition  thereto,  for  a 
kindergarten  certificate,  an  examination  in  Drawing.     A  special 
certificate  to  teach  Manual  Training,  Physical  Training,  Drawing 
or  Music,  may  be  granted  to  any  person  passing  an  examination 
in  School  Law  of  New  Jersey  and  the  special  subject  to  be  taught, 
and,  in  addition  thereto,  for  a  certificate  to  teach  Drawing,  an 
examination  in  Concrete  or  Inventional  Geometry.      A  special 
certificate  to  teach  commercial  branches  may  be  granted  to  any 
person  passing  an  examination  in  School  Law  of  New  Jersey, 
Bookkeeping,  Commercial  Arithmetic,  Stenography,  Theory  and 
Practice  of  Teaching  and  Business  Practice.     All  special  county 
certificates  shall  be  valid  for  a  term  of  three  years  from  their 
date,  and  may  be  renewed  without  re-examination. 

36.  A  professional  certificate  for  each  grade  may  be  issued  to 
a  teacher  whose  percentage  in  any  subject  shall  be  not  less  than 
75,  whose  general  average  in  .all  the  subjects  shall  be  not  less 
than  85,  and  who  shall  have  completed  the  prescribed  course  of 
professional  reading;   provided,  said  teacher,  in  the  judgment  of 
the  County  Board  of  Examkiers,  shall  possess  exceptional  skill  in 
the  organization,  management  and  advancement  of  a  school.     A 
County  Board  of  Examiners  must  exercise  due  caution  and  dis- 
cretion in  the  issue  of  professional  certificates.     A  professional 
certificate  shall  be  granted  only  after  a  careful  personal  supervi- 
sion and  inspection  of  school  work,  and  must  have  the  approval 
of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.    A  professional 
certificate  may  be  accepted  by  any  board  of  examiners  in  lieu  of 
.an  examination  in  any  of  the  subjects  covered  by  said  certificate. 


134  EULES  AND  REGULATIONS 


IV.      CITY    CERTIFICATES. 

37.  Each  City  Board  of  Examiners  shall  grant  certificates  of 
such  grades  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  City  Board'  of  Educa- 
tion, and  shall  also  grant  special  certificates  for  the  subjects  au- 
thorized under  Rule  12.     A  copy  of  the  rules  governing  exam- 
inations shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  State  Board  of  Education. 

38.  The  requirements   for  the   several   grades   of   certificates- 
granted  by  a  City  Board  of  Examiners  under  the  provisions  of 
section  32  of  the  School  law,  shall  be  not  less  than  those  pre- 
scribed by  these  Rules   and  Regulations  for  the  corresponding 
grades  of  county  certificates.    If  a  City  Board  of  Examiners  shall 
grant  but  two  grades  of  certificates,  other  than  special,  the  re- 
quirements for  the  two  grades  shall  be  not  less  than  the  require- 
ments prescribed  for  the  three  grades  of  county  certificates,  but 
the  subjects  required  shall  be  apportioned  between  said  grades 
by  the  City  Board  of  Examiners.     Nothing  in  this  rule  shall  be 
construed  as  prohibiting  a  City  Board  of  Examiners  from  requir- 
ing other  and  additional  qualifications  than  those  prescribed  by 
this  rule. 

39.  If  any  City  Board  of  Examiners  shall  hold  regular  exam- 
inations on  the  dates  fixed  by  these  Rules  and  Regulations  for 
holding  the  county  examinations,  and  shall  use  the  questions  and 
the  system  prescribed  for  county  examinations,  the  certificates 
granted  by  such  City  Board  of  Examiners  may  be  accepted  by 
the  State  Board  of  Examiners   and  by  any  County  Board  of 
Examiners  on  the  same  terms  as  said  boards  of  examiners  are 
authorized  to  accept  county  certificates. 

40.  The  board  of  education  in  each  city  school  district  having 
a  normal  or  training  school  or  a  normal  or  training  department, 
shall  submit  to  the  State  Board  of  Education  for  its  approval  the 
course  of  study  pursued  in  such  normal  or  training  school  or  nor- 
mal or  training  department,  and  shall  also  submit  for  approval 
all  changes  or  amendments  thereof  as  shall  be  made  after  such 
course  of  study  shall  have  been  approved  as  aforesaid. 

41.  All  diplomas  or  certificates  granted  to  graduates  of  a  normal 
or  training  school  or  a  normal  or  training  department  shall  be 
valid  as  certificates  to  teach  in  the  district  in  which  such  normal 
or  training  school  or  normal  or  training  department  shall  be 


FOE    SCHOOL    OFFICERS.  135 

situate;  provided,  the  course  of  study  pursued  by  the  persons 
to  whom  such  diplomas  or  certificates  shall  be  granted  shall  have 
been  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Education. 


V.     COUNTY    SUPERINTENDENTS. 

42.  Each  County  Superintendent  shall  visit  the  schools  in  his 
county  as  often  as  may  be  necessary ;   provided,  that  he  shall  visit 
every  school  under  his  jurisdiction  at  least  once  in  each  year; 
provided  further,,  that  the  total  number  of  visits  made  during  the 
year  shall  equal  at  least  twice  the  number  of  schools  under  his 
jurisdiction,  the  additional  visits  to  be  made  to  such  schools  as, 
in  his  judgment,  most  need  his  encouragement  and  advice.     At 
such  visits  he  shall  inquire  into  the  management,   methods  of 
instruction  and  discipline  in  such  schools;    note  the  condition  of 
the  school-houses,  sites,  buildings  and  appurtenances,  examine  the 
course  of  study,  text-books  and  school  libraries,  and  recommend 
to  and  counsel  teachers  as  to  proper  studies,  methods,  discipline 
and  management  for  the  schools. 

43.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  distribute  promptly  all 
documents,  forms,  laws,  circulars  and  instructions  which  he  may 
receive  from  the   State   Superintendent  or  the   State  Board   of 
Education. 

44.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  see  that  the  decisions  of 
the  State  Superintendent  and  the  State  Board  of  Education,  upon 
controversies  arising  under  the  School  laws  of  the  State  or  under 
the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  by  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion are  obeyed;    and  in  case  such  decisions  are  not  obeyed  he 
shall  so  inform  the  State  Superintendent  and  state  the  circum- 
stances. 

45.  The  County   Superintendent  shall  preserve  carefully  all 
reports  of  school  officers  and  teachers,  and  all  examination  papers 
of  teachers  examined  by  the  County  Board  of  Examiners,  and  at 
the  close  of  his  official  term  shall  deliver  to  his  successor  all 
records,  books,  documents,  papers  and  property  belonging  to  the 
office. 

46.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  not  be  agent  for  or  be 
in  any  way  pecuniarily  or  beneficially  interested  in  the  sale  to  the 
board  of  education  of  any  school  district  under  his  supervision  of 
any  text-books,  maps,  charts,  school  apparatus  or  supplies  of  any 


13G  RULES  AXD  REGULATIONS 

kind,  or  receive  compensation  or  reward  of  any  kind  for  any  such 
sale  or  for  unlawfully  promoting  or  favoring  the  same.  Any 
County  Superintendent  who  shall  violate  this  provision  shall 
be  subject  to  removal  from  office. 

47.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  meet  each  board  of  educa- 
tion in  his  county  at  least  twice  each  year,  at  such  times  and 
places  as  he  may  appoint. 

48.  The  County  Superintendent  shall,  in  the  manner  now  pro- 
vided by  law,  and  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  State  Superin- 
tendent, prepare  and  establish  a  uniform  course  of  study  and  a 
standard  of  graduation  in  the  schools  under  his  supervision. 

49.  The  County  Superintendent  shall,  by  such  means  as  he 
shall    deem   most   practicable,    establish    a    County    Pedagogical 
Library,  and  shall,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  State  Super- 
intendent, designate  courses  of  pedagogical  reading. 

50.  The  State  Superintendent  shall  furnish  blank  diplomas  to 
be  awarded  by  County  Superintendents  to  all  pupils  who  shall 
successfully  complete  the  prescribed  course  of  study;    also  diplo- 
mas suitable  to  be  granted  to  such  teachers  as  shall  prove  that 
they   have   intelligently   completed   the   courses    of    professional 
reading  prescribed  for  their  respective  grades. 

51.  The  Committee  on  Education  shall,  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  prepare  rules  for  the  examina- 
tion of  applicants  for  the  position  of  County  Superintendent; 
shall  conduct  such  examinations  and  shall  report  its  findings  to 
said  board  at  its  regular  meeting  in  October. 


TEACHERS'  INSTITUTES. 

52.  The  State  Superintendent  shall  secure  instructors,  prepare 
programs  and  provide  a  county  institute  for  each  county  of  the 
State,  but  shall  hold  joint  institutes  wherever  practicable.     Gen- 
eral sessions  of  such  institutes  may,  if  deemed  advisable,  be  held 
during  each  forenoon,  but  the  afternoon  session  shall  be  divided 
into  either  two  or  three  departments,  in  which  the  instruction  given 
shall  be  adapted  to  the  several  grades  of  teachers  in  attendance. 

53.  ISTo  public  school  in  the  State  shall  be  in  session,  or  shall 
be  deemed  to  be  in  session,  during  the  period  the  institute  for 
the  county  in  which  it  is  situate  shall  be  held. 


FOR    SCHOOL    OFFICEES.  137 

54.  All  teachers  shall  attend  the  annual  institute  held  for  the 
county  in  which  they  are  teaching ;  and  no  deduction  shall  be  made 
from  the  salary  of  any  teacher  for  the  time  he  shall  be  in  attend- 
ance upon  said  institute. 

55.  The  State  Superintendent  shall  pay  all  expenses  incurred 
in  connection  with  each  county  institute,  but  only  upon  the  pres- 
entation of  itemized  and  certified  bills,  and  shall  render  to  the 
State  Board  of  Education  both  an  itemized  and  a  summarized 
account  of  the  amount  expended,  accompanied  with  appropriate 
vouchers. 

56.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  make  all  necessary  local 
arrangements  for  the  county  institute,  shall  preside  at  the  same, 
shall  render  an  exact  statement  to  employing  boards  as  to  the 
time  each  teacher  in  the  county  has  been  in  attendance  at  said 
institute,  and  no  teacher  shall  be  paid  for  time  not  in  actual  at- 
tendance at  the  said  institute,  except  upon  the  presentation  of  a 
written  excuse  from  the  county  superintendent. 


TEACHERS. 

57.  The  order  or  warrant  for  the  balance  of  salary  due  any 
teacher  at  the  time  of  closing  the  school  for  the  summer  vacation 
shall  not  be  delivered  to  such  teacher  until  the  district  clerk  or 
other  officer  authorized  to  deliver  such  order  or  warrant  shall  have 
received  written  notice  from  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  that  such  teacher  has  filed  his  or  her  register  and 
report  of  attendance  with  him;  provided,  that  in  any  school  in 
which  more  than  one  teacher  shall  be  employed,  the  principal 
thereof  shall  file  the  registers  and  reports ;  and  provided  further, 
.that  in  any  district  having  a  superintendent  or  a  supervising 
principal  the  filing  of  the  registers  and  reports  with  such  super- 
intendent or  supervising  principal  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  com- 
pliance with  the  provisions  of  this  rule,  and  said  superintendent 
or  supervising  principal  shall  forward  the  registers  and  reports  to 
the  State  Superintendent. 


138  EULES  AXD   KEGULATIOXS 


SCHOOL    ATTENDANCE. 

58.  For  the  purpose  of  apportionment  a  day  shall  consist  of 
not  less  than  four  hours  of  actual  school  work,  except  in  kinder- 
gartens one  continuous  session  of  two  and  one-half  hours  may  be 
considered  a  day.     Night  school  sessions  shall  be  reckoned  as 
half  days. 

59.  The  mere  presence  of  a  pupil  at  roll  call  will  not  be  con- 
sidered as  sufficient  attendance  to  be  a  compliance  with  the  intent 
of  the  law.     A  pupil  must  be  present  at  least  one  hour  during 
any  forenoon,  afternoon  or  evening  session  in  order  to  be  recorded! 
present. 

60.  ~No  attendance  is  to  be  marked  in  the  register  for  the  days 
during  which  the  school  shall  be  closed,  but  a  report  shall  be 
made  to  the  State  Superintendent  at  the  end  of  the  year  stating- 
in  detail  the  days  on  which  the  schools  were  closed  and  the  reasons, 
therefor.     The  attendance  for  days  when  the  school  shall  have- 
been  closed  for  good  cause  will  be  computed  by  said  State  Super- 
intendent, and  all  that  the  teacher  is  required  to  do  is  to  note  in 
the  register  on  each  day  the  school  shall  be  closed,  the  reasons  why 
a  session  of  the  school  was  not  held. 

61.  Whenever  a  dwelling  shall  be  quarantined  by  order  of  the 
board  of  health,  notice  shall  be  sent  to  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  of  the  date  when  the  quarantine  went  into- 
effect  and  the  date  when  it  was  raised,  with  a  certificate  from 
the  Board   of   Health   stating   the   reasons   for  the  quarantine. 
Children  residing  in  the  building  quarantined,  who  shall  be  ac- 
tually on  roll  in  the  school  at  the  time  the  building  shall  be 
quarantined,  excepting  children  who  are  ill,  shall  be  counted  as- 
present  during  the  time  the  building  shall  be  quarantined.     The 
allowance  for  attendance  lost  by  pupils  quarantined  will  be  added 
to  the  total  attendance  of  the  district  by  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  at  the  end  of  the  school  year.     The  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  prepare  and  distribute 
blank  forms  for  carrying  this  rule  into  effect,  and  the  notice  pro- 
vided for  in  this  rule  shall  be  forwarded  on  said  forms  as  soon 
as  possible  after  said  quarantine  shall  be  raised. 


FOE  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.  139 


SCHOOL    LIBRARIES. 

62.  In  each  city  school  district  all  selections  of  books  of  refer- 
ence, books  for  school  libraries,  school  apparatus  and  educational 
works  of  art,  purchased  in  part  by  State  funds,  shall  be  approved 
by  a  committee  of  five  persons,  consisting  of  the  city  superin- 
tendent of  schools,  if  there  be  one,  two  principals  of  public  schools- 
in  such  city  to  be  appointed  by  said  city  superintendent,   and 
two  residents  of  the  city  to  be  appointed  by  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion.    If  in  any  such  city  there  shall  be  a  public  library,  with  a 
regularly  appointed  and  qualified  librarian  who  shall  be  able  to 
serve,  said  librarian  shall  be  a  member  of  such  committee,  in 
which  case  the  Board  of  Education  shall  appoint  one  resident  of 
the  city  on  such  committee  instead  of  two  as  is  hereinbefore  pro- 
vided.    In  any  city  school  district  not  having  a  city  superintend- 
ent of  schools,  the  county  superintendent  of  schools  of  the  county 
in  which  such  city  shall  be  situate,  shall  be  a  member  of  said 
committee,  and  shall  appoint  said  principals. 

63.  In  each  township,  incorporated  town  and  borough  school 
district,   all  selections  of  books  of  reference,   books  for  school 
libraries,  school  apparatus  and  educational  works  of  art,  purchased 
in  part  by  State  funds,  shall  be  approved  by  a  committee  con- 
sisting of  the  county  superintendent  of  schools  for  the  county  in 
which  such  district  shall  be  situate,  the  President  of  the  Board  of 
Education,  the  principal  of  the  school  for  which  the  purchases 
shall  be  made,  and  the  supervising  principal  of  the  district,  if 
there  be  one. 


Blanks  and  Forms 

For  School  Officers 


(141) 


BLANKS  AND  FORMS  FOR  SCHOOL  OFFICERS. 


The  following  Forms  have  been  prepared  for  the  use  of  all 
officers  having  duties  to  discharge  under  the  School  Law.  Their 
use  will  secure  uniformity  and  correctness  in  the  transaction  of 
financial  and  general  school  business.  The  literal  use  of  these 
Forms  is  in  no  case  essential  to  the  validity  of  a  school  instru- 
ment. Any  form  may  be  used  which  clearly  expresses  the  objects 
•designed,  or  the  intention  of  the  parties  interested,  and  conforms 
in  all  respects  to  the  requirements  of  the  law,  but  as  those  annexed 
have  been  prepared  with  strict  reference  to  these  necessary  con- 
ditions, their  use  is  recommended.  The  blank  spaces  are  to  be 
filled  to  meet  the  varying  circumstances  in  each  case.  These 
Forms  have  been  submitted  to  and  approved  by  the  State  Board 
of  Education. 

CHARLES  J.  BAXTEE, 

State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 

(14*) 


FORMS  FOR  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENTS. 


I.     (Form   No.  15.) — Transfer  Certificate. 

County. 

Transfer  Certificate  No 

This  is  to  certify  that ,  residing  in  the 

School  District  of ,  County  of ,  has  re- 
ceived the  consent  of  the  County  Superintendent  to  attend  the 

Public  Schools  in  the  School  District  of r 

County  of 

Dated ,   190.  . 


County  Superintendent. 

One  copy  should  be  filed  with  the  clerk  of  the  school  district- 
in  which  the  pupil  attends  school,  and  one  copy  with  the  clerk 
of  the  school  district  in  which  said  pupil  resides.  When  the 
districts  are  in  adjoining  counties,  the  certificate  must  be  signed 
by  the  County  Superintendent  of  each  county. 


II.     (Form   No.  21.)— Notice  of   Institute. 

,  K  J., ,  190.. 

The  Teachers'  Institute  for County  will  be  held 

at ,  beginning ,  190.  .,  and  closing 

,  190.. 


County  Superintendent. 

RULE  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  STATE  BOABD  OF  EDUCATION. — "All  teachers  shall 
attend  the  annual  institute,  held  for  the  county  in  which  they  are  teaching,  and 
no  deduction  shall  be  made  from  the  salary  of  any  teacher  for  the  time  he  shall 
be  in  attendance  upon  said  institute." 

(144} 


FOE  SCHOOL  OFFICEKS.  145 


I.     (Form    No.   22.) — Certificate   of   Teacher's   Attendance    at    Institute. 

,  X.  «L, ,  190.. 

To  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  School  District  of : 

I  hereby  certify  that. has  been  in  attend- 
ance at  the  Annual  Institute  of  the  County,  just  closed, 

days. 


County  Superintendent, 


IV.     (Form    No.   38.) — Notice   of    Meeting   for    Examination    of   Teachers. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  there  will  be  a  meeting  of  the 

County  Board  of  Examiners  of County,  for  the 

examination  of  candidates  for  teachers'  certificates  at , 

on ,  the instant.     Each  applicant  for  a  certifi- 
cate should  be  present  as  early  as o'clock  A.  M. 


County  Superintendent. 

,  190. . 

The  questions  will  be  given  in  the  following  order : 
Friday — (1)   Penmanship,.  (2)   Orthography,   (3)  Arithmetic. 
(4)  Geography,  (5)  Grammar,  (6)  Reading. 

Saturday — Third  Grade. — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teach- 
ing, (2)  School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  Temperance  Physiology, 

(4)  United  States  History,  (5)  Elementary  Civics,  (6)  Elemen- 
tary Composition. 

Second  Grade. — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching,  (2) 
School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  History  of  Education,  (4) 
Physiology,  (5)  Composition,  (6)  Bookkeeping,  (7)  Elementary 
Algebra. 

First  Grade. — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching,  (2)  School 
Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  History  of  Education,  (4)  Algebra,  (5) 
Civics,  (6)  Physics,  (7)  General  History,  (8)  Plane  Geometry. 

Special  Certificates. — (1)  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching, 
(2)  School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  (3)  Kindergarten,  (4)  Drawing,. 

(5)  Manual  Training,   (6)   Physical  Training,   (7)   Music,   (8) 
Ancient  Languages,    (9)   Modern  Languages,    (10)    Inventional 
Geometry. 

10 


146  BLANKS   AND   FORMS 


V.     (Form    No.   25.)— Statement   of    Expenses. 

,  N.  J., ,  190.. 

To  the  State  Board  of  Education: 

I  herewith  submit  a  statement,  by  items,  of  the  expenses  I 
have  incurred  in  the  performance  of  my  official  duties  as  County 
Superintendent  of County,  for  the  three  months  end- 
ing  ,  190. . 

OFFICE    EXPENSES. 

Postage, 

Expressage,          .          .          .          .         .         .         .         

Stationery,  .          .          .         .          .         .         .         

Printing,  .          .          .          .          .          .          .          


MISCELLANEOUS    EXPENSES. 


EXPENSES   INCURRED  IN   VISITING  SCHOOLS. 


Date ,  Schools , 

Date ,  Schools , 


SUMMARY. 

Office   expenses,  ....... 

Miscellaneous  expenses,         ...... 

Expenses  incurred  in  visiting  schools,    .... 

Total, 

Total  number  of  school-houses  in  the  County, 

Total  number  visited  during  the  three  months  ending 

,190..,       .  ... 

Numbers  of  the  schools  not  visited,        .... 
Reasons  why  these  schools  were  not  visited,    . 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY,  ) 

>  99 
County,  j 

On  this day  of ,  190.  .,  before  me  personally 

appeared ,  County  Superintendent  of County, 


FOK  SCHOOL  OFFICEES.  147 

who,  on  his  oath,  saith  that  the  within  statement  is  true,  and 
that,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  he  ha.s,  during  the 
time  for  which  this  statement  is  made,  faithfully  performed  all 
the  duties  imposed  by  the  School  Law  and  by  the  regulations  of 
the  State  Board  of  Education. 


Sworn  and  subscribed  before  mel 
this day  of ,  190.  .  j 


VI.     (Form   No.  26.) — Order  on   County  Collector  for  the  $200,000  State 
School    Fund   Appropriation. 

OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT, 

,  K  J., ,  190.. 

To  the  Collector  of County: 

Pay  to  the  order  of  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the 

School  District  of , dollars,  being  the  amount 

apportioned  for  the  support  of  Public  Schools  in  said  District, 
out  of  the  State  School  Fund  appropriation  of  $200,000,  for  the 
School  Year  beginning  July  1st,  190 .  . 


County  Superintendent. 


VII.      (Form   No.  26A.) — Order  on   County  Collector  for  the  State 
Appropriation. 

OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT, 

,  K  J., ,  190.. 

To  the  Collector  of County : 

Pay  to  the  order  of  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the 

School  District  of , dollars,  being  the  amount 

apportioned  for  the  support  of  Public  Schools  in  said  District, 
out  of  the  State  Appropriation,  for  the  School  Year  beginning 
July  1st,  190.  .,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section  172 
of  the  School  Law. 
$.. 


County  Superintendent. 


148  BLANKS   AXD   FOKMS 


VIII.     (Form    No.    27.) — Order    on    the    County    Collector   for    the    State 

School  Tax. 

OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT,  ) 

,ff.  J., ,190..       ( 

To  the  Collector  of County: 

Pay  to  the  order  of  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the 

School  District  of , dollars,  being  the  amount 

apportioned  out  of  the  State  School  Tax  for  the  support  of  Public 
Schools  in  said  District,  for  the  School  Year  beginning  July  1st, 
190.. 


County  Superintendent. 


IX.     (Form    No.   28.) — Order   on    the    County   Collector   for  the    Reserve 

Fund. 

OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT,  ) 

,  K  J., ,  190..       j 

To  the  Collector  of County: 

Pay  to  the  order  of  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the 

School  District  of , dollars,  being  the  amount 

apportioned  out  of  the  Reserve  Fund  for  the  support  of  Public 
Schools  in  said  District,  for  the  School  Year  beginning  July  1st,. 
190.. 


County  Superintendent. 


X.     (Form   No.  29.)  —  Order  on   the   County  Collector  for  the    Interest  of 

Surplus   Revenue. 


OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT,  \ 


To  the  Collector  of  ......  County: 

Pay  to  the  order  of  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the1 
School  District  of  .........  ,  ........  dollars,  being  the  amount 

apportioned  out  of  the  Interest  of  the  Surplus  Revenue  for  the- 


FOR  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.  149 

support  of  Public  Schools  in  said  District,  for  the  School  Year 
beginning  July  1st,  190.  . 


County  Superintendent. 


XI.     (Form    No.  30.) — Order  on   County  Collector  for   Balances. 

OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT,  ) 

,  N.  J., ,190..       ( 

To  the  Collector  of County : 

Pay  to  the  order  of  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the 

School  District  of , dollars,  being  the  amount 

of  balance  of  the  State  Appropriation  reapportioned  to  said  Dis- 
trict for  the  support  of  Public  Schools,  for  the  School  Year 
beginning  July  1st,  190.  . 


County  Superintendent. 


XII.     (Form    No.    31.) — Order   on    the    County    Collector   for    Examiner's 

Salary. 

]STo. .  OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT 


TENDENT,  ) 
,190..       ) 


To  the  Collector  of County: 

Pay  to  the  order  of ,  County  Examiner, 

dollars,  being  the  amount  due  him  for  services   and   traveling 

expenses  at  the ,  190.  .,  session  of  the  Board  of  County 

Examiners. 

$ 

County  Superintendent. 


XIII.      (Form    No.   57.)— Notice  to    District   Clerk   that   Teacher   has  filed 

Report. 

,  ST.  J.,  190.. 

To District  Clerk: 

SIR — You  are  hereby  notified  that has  filed 

annual  report  with  me,  as  required  by  law. 


County  Superintendent. 


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XIV.     Notice  to  Teacher   Revoking   His  Certificate. 
To    : 

SIB — The  certificate  of  qualification  held  by  you  as  a  Public 

School  teacher  in  the  County  of ,  issued  on  the 

day  of ,  190.  .,  is  hereby  revoked,  for  the  reason  that 

[here  state  reason  wliy  certificate  is  revoked]. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


County  Superintendent. 
See  Rules  8  and  9  of  the  State  Board  of  Education. 


XV.     Notice  to   District  Clerk   Informing   Him  of  the   Revocation  of 
Teacher's  Certificate. 

To ,  District  Clerk  of  the  School  District  of , 

of  the  County  of : 

SIR — You  are  hereby  notified  that  on  the day  of , 

190.  . ,  the  certificate  of  qualification  held  by ,  a  teacher 

in  your  Township,  was  revoked  for  the  reason  that  the  said 

does  not  possess  the  requisite  qualifications  as  a  teacher 

in  respect  to  [moral  character,  learning  or  ability  to  teach,  as 
the  case  may  be]. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


County  Superintendent. 

NOTE. — When  a  teacher's  certificate  is  revoked,  a  notice  similar  to  the  above 
should  also  be  sent  to  the  Custodian  of  the  School  Moneys  of  the  District  in 
which  the  teacher  has  been  engaged. 


XVI.     Form  of  Certificate  Condemning  a  School-House. 

This  is  to  certify  that  I,  the  undersigned,  have  this  day  con- 
demned Public  School-house  !N\) ,  in  the  School  District  of 

and  County  of ,  as  being,  in  its  present  con- 
dition, inadequate  and  unsuited  to  the  number  of  pupils  attend- 
ing or  desiring  to  attend  said  school.  [Here  give  reasons.] 


FOK  SCHOOL  OFFICEBS.  151 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 

County  Superintendent. 

Approved  this day  of ,  190.  . ,  and  this  order 

shall  take  effect  on  the day  of ,  190.  . 


State  Superintendent  Public  Instruction. 

NOTE. — The  original  should  be  filed  with  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys,  a 
copy  retained  by  the  County  Superintendent  and  a  copy  filed  with  the  State 
Superintendent  and  with  the  District  Clerk. 


XVII.     Notice  to  the  Custodian   of  School    Moneys  of  Apportionment  of 

Balances. 


OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT, 
,  N.  J., ,190.. 


f 


To  the  Custodian  of  School  Monevs  of  the  School  District  of 


The  amount  of  balances  of  the  State  Appropriation  due  your 
School  District,  under  section  178  of  the  School  Law,  is  $ 


County  Superintendent. 


XVIII.     Notice  to    District   Clerk   of  Apportionment   of    Balances. 

OFFICE  OF  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT, 

,K  J., ,190.. 

D.  C.,  School  District  of : 

I  have  this  day  apportioned  to  your  District,  from  the  balances 

of  the  State  Appropriation,  the  sum  of  $ for  the  School 

Year  beginning  July  1st,  190.  . 


County  Superintendent. 


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XIX.     Appointment  of  a   President  or   District  Clerk. 
To : 

The  office  of  President  (or  District  Clerk)  of  the  Board  of 

Education  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the  County  of 

,  being  vacant  through  failure  of  the  Board  of  Education 

to  elect  according  to  law,  you  are  hereby  appointed  to  fill  such 
vacancy  until  the  next  annual  meeting  for  the  election  of  members 
of  the  Board  of  Education  in  said  district. 

Dated  this day  of ,   190 .. 


County  Superintendent. 


XX.     Notice  to  the  Custodian  of  School   Moneys,  directing  him  to  with- 
hold School   Moneys  from  a  Teacher. 

To  the  Custodian  of  School  Monevs  of  the  School  District  of 


SIR — You  are  hereby  directed  to  withhold  all  further  payment 

of  salary  to ,  a  teacher  now  employed  in  School 

2^0, .  .  .  . ,  situated  in  your  School  District,  said  teacher  not  being 
in  possession  of  a  certificate  [or  not  having  kept  the  School  Reg- 
ister^, as  is  required  by  the  School  Law. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


County  Superintendent. 
Approved  this day  of ,  190 .  . 


State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 

See  note  to  Form  XVI. 


XXI.     Notice  to  the  Custodian  of  School   Moneys,  directing  him  to  with- 
hold School   Moneys  from  a  District. 

To  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the  School  District  of 


SIR — You  are  hereby  directed  to  withhold  \Jiere  state  the 
amount  in  words']  from  the  school  moneys  apportioned  to  your 
School  District  [here  state  the  reason  why  the  money  is  withheld]. 


FOE  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.  153 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 

County  Superintendent. 

Approved  this day  of „ .,  190.  . 

State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 

See  note  to  Form  XVI. 


154  BLANKS  AND  FORMS 


FORMS  FOR  CITY  SUPERINTENDENTS. 


XXII.     (Form    No.    33.)— Application   for   State   Aid   for   School    Library. 

,  K  J., ,  190.. 

To  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction: 

SIR — We,  the  undersigned,   Superintendent  and  Secretary  of 

the  Board  of  Education  of  the  School  District  of ,  County 

of ,  State  of  !N~ew  Jersey,  do  hereby  certify  that  there  has 

been  raised  in  our  district  the  sum  of dollars,  for  the 

purpose  of  establishing  a  school  library  in  the  School 

in   said  District,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  Article 
XXV.,  section  212,  of  the  revised  School  Law,  and  we  therefore 

request  you  to  send  to ?  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of 

said  District,  an  order  for  the  amount  due  from  the  State  in 
accordance  with  the  further  provisions  of  said  article. 


City  Superintendent. 
Secretary  Board  of  Education. 


STATE  OF  XEW  JEESEY, 

COUNTY  OF 

,  Superintendent  of  the  School  District , 

in  the  County  of ,  . ,  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath  saith 

that  the  within  statement  is  true. 


Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me  this 
day  of ,  190.. 


XXIII.     (Form    No.   39.)— Teacher's   Contract. 

It  is  agreed  between  the  Board  of  Education  of in  the 

County  of and that  said  Board  of  Education 

has    employed    and   does   hereby   engage    and   employ   the    said 


FOR  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.  155 

....  to  teach  in  the public  school,  under  the  control 

of  said  Board  of  Education,  for  the  term  of year .... 

from  the day  of ,  190 .  . ,  at  the  salary  of  $ 

to  be  paid  in equal  monthly  installments ;    

that  the  said shall  begin  teaching  on  the day 

of ;,  190 .  .  ;  that  the  said holds  a  valid 

grade certificate  to  teach  now  in  full  force  and  effect,  or 

will  procure  such  certificate  before  the  date he  shall  begin 

teaching,  and  that  the  date  when  said  certificate  will  expire  is 
the day  of ,  190.  . 

It  is  hereby  agreed  that  either  of  said  parties  to  this  contract 
may,  at  any  time,  'terminate  said  contract  and  the  employment 
aforesaid,  by  giving  to  the  other  party  [here  insert  length  of  time] 
notice  in  writing  of  its  election  to  so  terminate  the  same. 

The  said hereby  accepts  the  employment  aforesaid 

and  undertakes  that he  will  faithfully  do  and  perform 

duty  under  the  employment  aforesaid,  and  will  observe 

and  enforce  the  rules  prescribed  for  the  government  of  the  School 
by  the  Board  of  Education  and  the  Superintendent,  or  Principal, 
or  Supervising  Principal. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190. . 


President  of  the  Board  of  Education 

of  the  School  District  of , 

County  of 


Teacher. 


XXIV.     (Form   No.  40.)— Application  for  State  Aid  for  Manual 

Training. 

,  BT.  J., ,  190.. 

To  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction : 

SIR — We  hereby  certify  that  for  the  School  Year  beginning 

July  1st,  190.  .,  there  has  been  raised  by in  the  School 

District  of ,  in  the  County  of ,  the  sum  of 

dollars,  for  the  purpose  of course  of  Manual  Training 

pursued  in  the  schools  of  said  District,  and  that  said  amount  has 
been  appropriated  for  such  purpose. 


156  BLANKS   AND   FORMS 

This  application  is  made  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
Article  XXIY.   of  the  revised   School  Law,   and  we  therefore 

request  you  to  draw  an  order  in  favor  of ,  Custodian  of 

the  School  Moneys  of  said  District,  for  the  amount  due  from  the 
State,  in  accordance  with  the  further  provisions  of  said  article. 


President  of  the  Board  of  Education 

of  the  School  District  of , 

County  of 

Attest : 


Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education. 


FOE  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.  157 


FORMS  FOR  DISTRICT  CLERKS. 


XXV.     (Form    No.   3.) — Notice   for   Annual    Meeting   for   the    Election    of 
Members   of  the    Board   of   Education. 

Xotice  is  hereby  given  to  the  legal  voters  of  the  School  Dis- 
trict of ,  in  the  County  of ,  that  the  annual 

School  meeting  for  the  election  of  members  of  the  Board  of 

Education  will  be  held  at ,  on  Tuesday,  the 

day  of  March,  190.  . ,  at.  .  .  .o'clock.  .M. 

The  polls  will  remain  open  one  hour,  and  as  much  longer  as 
may  be  necessary  to  enable  all  the  legal  voters  present  to  cast 
their  ballots. 

At  said  meeting  will  be  submitted  the  question  of  voting  a 

tax  for  the  following  purposes : The  total 

amount  thought  necessary  is  $ 

The  following  propositions  will  also  be  submitted : 

Dated  this day  of  March,  190.  . 

District  Clerk. 

NOTE. — The  above  notice  must  be  posted  in  at  least  seven  public  places  in  the 
district,  one  copy  being  posted  on  each  school  building  at  least  ten  days  previous 
to  the  time  of  the  meeting.  The  election  must  be  held  on  the  third  Tuesday  of 
March.  Each  item  of  business  to  be  acted  on  must  be  particularly  specified  in 
the  notice.  See  sections  84,  179  and  188. 


XXVI.     Notice  for  a  Special    District   Meeting. 

Xotice  is  hereby  given  to  the  legal  voters  of  the  School  Dis- 
trict of ,  in  the  County  of ,  that  a  special  School 

meeting  will  be  held  at ,  on  the day  of ,  190.  ., 

at.  . .  .o'clock  in  the noon,  at  which  meeting  will  be  sub- 
mitted the  following  questions  [here  particularly  specify  each  item 
of  business  to  be  acted  upon]. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


President. 
District  Clerk. 


358  BLANKS   AND   FORMS 


XXVII.  Various  Specifications  of  Business  to  be  Transacted  that  may 
be  inserted  in  any  Notice  for  District  Meeting,  as  they  may  be 
Needed. 

To  authorize  the  board  of  education  to  purchase  land  and  to 
erect  and  furnish  a  school-house  thereon; 

To  authorize  the  board  of  education  to  repair,  alter,  enlarge  or 
furnish  a  school-house  already  erected; 

To  raise  money  by  district  tax  to  pay  the  expenses  of  such 
erection,  alteration  or  repair; 

To  authorize  the  board  to  borrow  money  to  defray  the  expenses 
of  such  erection,  alteration  or  repair,  and  to  provide  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  same  by  bonding  the  district; 

To  see  if  the  district  will  vote  a  sufficient  district  tax  to  defray 
the  current  expenses  of  the  schools  during  the  ensuing  year  [cur- 
rent expenses  include  principals',  teachers7,  janitors'  and  medical 
inspectors'  salaries,  fuel,  text-books,  school  supplies,  flags,  trans- 
portation of  pupils,  tuition  of  pupils  attending  school  in  other 
districts  with  the  consent  of  the  board  of  education,  school  libra- 
ries, compensation  of  the  district  clerk,  of  the  custodian  of  scnool 
moneys  and  of  truant  officers,  truant  schools,  insurance  and  the 
incidental  expenses  of  the  schools]  ; 

To  order  a  district  tax  for  the  payment  of  a  debt  of 

dollars,  now  resting  upon  the  school-house  property ; 

To  order  the  sale  of  the  present  school-house  property,  and  to 
decide  what  disposition  shall  be  made  of  the  proceeds ; 

To  authorize  the  board  to  condemn  land  for  school  purposes; 

To  authorize  the  board  to  renew  outstanding  bonds ; 

To  see  if  the  district  will  reduce  the  number  of  members  of  the 
board  of  education; 

To  see  if  the  district  will  agree  to  establish  a  union-graded 
school ; 

To  order  a  district  tax  for  manual  training. 


XXVIII.     Order  of   Business  at  a   District  School    Meeting. 

1.  Choose  a  chairman  and  secretary. 

2.  Read  the  notice  calling  the  meeting. 

3.  Report  of  district  clerk. 


FOE  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.  159 

4.  Appointment  of  tellers  by  the  chairman. 

5.  Transaction   of  the  business   for   which   the   meeting   was 
called,  as  set  forth  in  the  notice. 

6.  .Miscellaneous  business. 

7.  Adjournment. 


XXIX.     (Form   No.   12.) — Order  on   Custodian   of  School    Moneys  for 
Teacher's  Salaries. 

Xo ,  K  J., ,  190.. 

To ,  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the  School  District 

of 

County  of ,  State  of  New  Jersey : 

Pay  to  the  order  of ,  Teacher, dollars,  being 

the  amount  of  salary  due  for  teaching  in  Public  School  Xo , 

of  said  School  District  of ,  from ,  190.  . 

to ' ,  190.  . 

$ ,  President.  (  'Board  of  Education  of  the 

,  District  Cleric.  \      School  District  of 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  Teacher  in  whose  favor  this  order  is 
drawn,  is  in  possession  of  a  Teacher's  Certificate,  in  full  force 
and  effect,  and  has  properly  kept  the  School  Register,  as  required 
by  law,  and  that  I  have  certified  thereto  in  said  Register. 


District  Clerk. 

NOTE. — Money  raised  by  district  tax  can  be  used  for  such  school  purposes  as 
are  specified  at  the  meeting  at  which  the  money  is  ordered.  All  other  school 
money  must  be  reserved  for  the  payment  of  teacher's  salary,  fuel,  bills,  trans- 
portation of  pupils  and  tuition  of  pupils  in  adjoining  districts. 

Payments  can  be  made  only  for  the  support  of  those  schools  that  conform  in 
all  respects  to  the  provisions  of  the  School  Law,  and  to  those  teachers  only  who 
possess  certificates  in  full  force  and  effect,  covering  the  time  for  which  salary  is 
demanded,  and  who  have  kept  the  school  register  in  the  manner  prescribed. 

The  custodian  of  school  moneys  should  invariably  refuse  to  pay  orders  until 
he  is  satisfied  that  all  these  conditions  have  been  complied  with. 


160  BLANKS   AND 


XXX.  (Form  No.  13.) — Order  on  the  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  for 
District  Tax  Raised  for  Other  Purposes  than  the  Payment  of 
Teachers'  Salaries. 

No ,  N.  J., ,  190.  . 

To ,  Custodian  of  School  Moneys  of  the  School  Dis- 
trict of ,  County  of ,  State  of  New  Jersey : 

Pay  to  the  order  of , dollars,  for  [here  state 

for  ivhat  purpose  the  money  is  to  be  paid^ ,  out  of  the  funds  raised 

by  District  Tax  now  in  your  hands. 

,  President.  (Board  of  Education  School  Dis- 

t  District  Clerk.   (^      trict ,  County  of 


XXXI.     (Form    No.    14.)  —  Notice    by    District   Clerk   to    County    Superin- 
tendent of  the  Election  of  Members  of  Board  of  Education. 

To  ..............  ,  County  Superintendent  : 

SIR  —  The  legal  voters  of  ........  ,  at  the  annual  school  meet- 

ing held  on  the  ...........  day  of  March,  190  .  .  ,  elected  ...... 

........  as  members  of  the  Board  of  Education  in  the  place  of 

..................  ,  whose  terms  had  expired. 

The  Board  of  Education  now  consists  of— 

Name.  Address. 

Mr  .........  ,  ........  ,  whose  term  expires  190.  . 

«     ........  ?   ........  ,      "          "          "        190.  . 

«     ........  ,  ........  ,      "          "          "        190.  . 

«  ........       "          "          "        190.  . 


«     ........  ,   ........  ,      "  "          "        190.. 

«     ........  ,   ........  ,      "  "          "        190.. 

«     ........  ,   ........  ,      "  "          "        190.. 

«            .....  y   ........  9      "  "          "        190.  . 

«                  .  /?   ........  \      "  "          "        190.  . 

The  Board  has  organized  by  the  election  of  Mr  ............  as 

President,  and  Mr  .......  .....  as  District  Clerk. 


District  Clerk. 

. — This  notice  should  be  sent  to  the  county  superintendent  as  soon  after 
the  election  as  possible.     It  may  be  sent  by  the  district  clerk  or  the  secretary. 


FOR  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.  161 


XXXII.     (Form    No.   17.) — Report  of   District  Clerk  to   County  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Amount  of  District  School  Tax  Ordered  to  be  Raised. 

To ,  County  Superintendent  of County : 

The  legal  voters  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the 

County  of ,  met  at ,  a  convenient  public  place 

within  the  District,  on  the day  of ,  190.  .,  and 

notice  thereof,  setting  forth  the  time,  place  and  object  of  said 

meeting,  specifying dollars  as  the  amount  of  money 

thought  necessary  to  be  raised,  was  given  by  the  District  Clerk, 

and  set  up  at public  places  within  the  District  ten  days 

before  the  meeting,  and  the  said  legal  voters,  so  met,  by  the  con- 
sent of  a  majority  of  those  present,  authorized  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  said  District ,  and  ordered,  by  a  like  vote, 

dollars  for  the  purpose  of ,  and dollars  for  the 

purpose  of ,  amounting  in  all  to dollars,  which 

sum  is  not  in  excess  of  the  amount  thought  to  be  necessary  as 
set  forth  in  the  notices. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


District  Cler1-.. 
STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY, 


n  r  SS. 

COUNTY  OF 

>9  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath  saith  that  he  is  the 

District  Clerk  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the  County  of 

,  and  that  the  above  statement  is  correct  and  true. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this day  of , 

190.. 


XXXIII.  (Form  No.  17.)— Certificate  of  the  Amount  of  School  Tax 
Voted  to  be  Raised  in  a  School  District,  to  be  Delivered  by  the 
District  Clerk  to  the  Township  Assessor. 

To .,  Assessor  of Township,    County, 

State  of  New  Jersey: 

The  legal  voters  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the 

County  of ,  met  at ,  a  convenient  public  place 

within  the  district,  on  the day  of ,  190.  .,  a 

11 


162  BLANKS  AED  FOKMS 

notice  thereof,  setting  forth  the  time,  place  and  .object  of  said 

meeting,  and  specifying '. dollars  as  the  amount  of  money 

thought  necessary  to  be  raised,  was  given  by  the  District  Clerk, 

and  set  up  at places  within  the  district,  one  copy  having 

been  posted  on  each  school-house  in  the  district,  ten  days  before 
the  meeting;  and  the  legal  voters,  so  met,  by  the  consent  of 
sa  majority  of  those  present,  authorized  the  Board  of  Education 
of  said  district  [to  purchase  lands,  &c.,  as  the  case  may  be],  and 

ordered  by  a  like  vote dollars  for  the  purpose  of  [as 

purchasing  land~] ,  and dollars  for  the  purpose  of  [as 

building  a  school-house],  &c.,  amounting  in  all  to dollars, 

which  sum  is  not  in  excess  of  the  amount  thought  to  be  necessary, 
as  set  forth  in  the  notices,  and  you  are  therefore  directed  to  assess 

the  said  sum  of dollars  on  the  inhabitants  of  said  School 

District  and  their  estates,  and  the  taxable  property  therein,  pur- 
suant to  the  statute  in  such  case  made  and  provided. 
Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


District  Clerk. 
STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY, 


,  ss. 
COUNTY  OF, 


,  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath  saith  that  he  is  the  Dis- 
trict Clerk  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the  County 'of 

?  and  the  above  statement  by  him  is  correct  and  true. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me  this day  of , 

190.. 


NOTES  TO  XXXII.  AND  XXXIII. — The  certificate  must  state  for  what  object 
or  objects  the  money  is  raised.  3  Vr.  444.  If  more  than  one  object  is  specified, 
the  amount  of  money  apportioned  to  each  must  be  stated.  7  Vr.  89. 

A  district  tax  ordered  for  the  purpose  of  "maintaining  a  school"  is  illegal. 
The  express  purpose,  as  specified  in  section  179,  for  which  the  money  is  to  be 
used  must  be  stated  and  voted  upon. 

The  law  requires  that  notice  of  the  above  action  should  also  be  sent  to  the 
county  superintendent. 


SCHOOL  OFFICEES.  163 


XXXIV.     (Form    No.    20.)— Affidavit   to    Bills    Presented    to    a    Board    of 

Education. 


STATE  OF  XEW  JERSEY. 

'  v  ss. 


5Y'  I 

COUNTY,          j 

,  of  full  age,  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath 

saith  that  the  goods  or  services  itemized  in  the  annexed  bill  have 
been  delivered  or  rendered;  that  no  bonus  nor  reward  has  been 
given  or  received  by  any  person  or  persons,  within  the  knowledge 
of  the  deponent,  in  connection  with  the  same;  that  the  same  is 
correct  and  true,  and  the  amount  therein  stated  is  justly  due  and 
owing  as  set  forth. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me, 

this day  of ,  190.  . 

,D.C. 


XXXV.     (Form    No.  32.)— Application   for  State   Aid   to    Establish   a 

School    Library. 

,  K  J., ,  190.. 

To  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction: 

SIR — We,  the  undersigned,  President  and  District  Clerk  of  the 

Board  of  Education  of  the  School  District  of ,  County 

of ,  State  of  New  Jersey,  do  hereby  certify  that  there  has 

been  raised  in  School  RTo ,  by  [special  tax,  subscription,  or 

entertainment,  as  the  case  may  be~],  the  sum  of dollars,  for 

the  purpose  of  establishing  [or  maintaining,  as  fhe  case  may  be~\ 

a  School  Library  in  said  School ,  in  accordance  with  the 

provisions  of  Article  XXV.,  Section  212,  of  the  revised  School 
Law.  And  we,  therefore,  request  you  to  send  an  order  for  the 
amount  due  us  from  the  State  in  accordance  with  the  further 
provisions  of  said  article. 


President. 
District  Clerk. 


164  BLANKS  AND  FORMS 

STATE  OF  NEW  JEBSEY, 
COUNTY, 

,  District  Clerk  of  the  School  District  of ,  IB 

the  County  of ,  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath  saith  that 

the  within  statement  is  true. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this ")        

: day  of. ,  A.  D.  190. .  > 

*        J  -3t*. 

NOTE. — The  first  appropriation  is  twenty  dollars,  and  subsequent  appropria- 
tions ten  dollars  each. 


XXXVI.     (Form  No.  129.)— Report  of  Purchases  Made  for  School 

Library. 

,  190.. 

To  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction: 

I  hereby  report  that  the  following  purchases  have  been  made 
for  our  School,  with  the  amount  raised  in  the  District,  and  the 
appropriation  received  from  the  State. 


District  Cleric. 

N.  B. — This  report  must  be  made  in  order  that  the  district  may  be  entitled  to 
future  payment.  It  should  give  the  names  and  prices  of  the  several  articles' 
purchased. 


XXXVII.     (Form   No.  39.)— Teacher's  Contract 

It  is  agreed  between  the  Board  of  Education  of ,  in  the 

County  of and ,  that  said  Board  of  Education  has 

employed  and  does  hereby  engage  and  employ  the  said 

to  teach  in  the public  school,  under  the  control  of  said 

Board  of  Education,  for  the  term  of year from  the 

day  of ,  190 . . ,  at  the  salary  of  $ ,  to  be 

paid  in equal  monthly  installments ;  that  the  said 

shall  begin  teaching  on  the day  of ,  190. .  ;  that 

the  said holds  a  valid grade certificate 

to  teach  now  in  full  force  and  effect,  or  will  procure  such  certifi- 
cate before  the  date.  . .  .he  shall  begin  teaching,   and  that  the 

date  when  said  certificate  will  expire  is  the day  of 

,  190.. 


FOE   SCHOOL   OFFICERS.  165 

It  is  hereby  agreed  that  either  of  said  parties  to  this  contract 
may,  at  any  time,  terminate  said  contract  and  the  employment 
aforesaid,  by  giving  to  the  other  party  [here  insert  length  of  time~\ 
notice  in  writing  of  its  election  to  so  terminate  the  same. 

The  said hereby  accepts  the  employment  aforesaid 

and  undertakes  that.  .  .he  will  faithfully  do  and  perform 

duty  under  the  employment  aforesaid,  and  will  observe  and  en- 
force the  rules  prescribed  by  the  government  of  the  School  by 
the  Board  of  Education  and  the  Superintendent,  or  Principal,  or 
Supervising  Principal. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


President  of  the  Board  of  Education 

of  the  School  District  of , 

County  of 


Teacher. 

NOTE. — One  copy  of  the  contract  must  be  filed  with  the  county  superintend- 
ent, one  copy  with  the  district  clerk  and  one  copy  retained  by  the  teacher. 


XXXVIII.     (Form  No.  40.)— Application  for  State  Aid  for  Manual 

Training. 

To  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction: 

SIB — We  hereby  certify  that  for  the  School  Year  beginning 

July  1st,  190. .,  there  has  been  raised  by ,  in  the  School 

District  of ,  in  the  County  of ,  the  sum  of 

dollars,  for  the  purpose  of course  of  Manual  Training 

pursued  in  the  Schools  of  the  District,  and  that  said  amount  has 
been  appropriated  for  such  purpose. 

This  application  is  made  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
Article  XXIV.  of  the  School  Law,  and  we  do  hereby  make  appli- 
cation for  a  State  appropriation,  equal  to  the  sum  of  money  so 
raised  and  appropriated  as  aforesaid. 


Attest:  President. 

District  Clerk. 


166  BLANKS    AND    EOKMS 

XXXIX.     (Form  No.  137.) — Bond  to  be  Issued  for  Loan. 
SCHOOL    BOND. 

No Bond  of  School  District  of  the of 9 

County  of 

$ County,  N.  <L 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  "The  Board  of  Educa- 
tion of  the of ,  in  the  County  of ,"  in 

the  State  of  New  Jersey,  is  justly  indebted  unto ,  or 

bearer,  in  the  sum  of dollars,  lawful  money  of  the  United 

States  of  America,  to  be  paid  to  the  said .,  or  bearer,  on 

the day  of ,  190.  .,  at  the bank  at , 

N.  J.,  with  interest  therefor  from  the  date  hereof,  at  the  rate  of 

per  centum  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually,  on  the- 

days  of and in  every  year,  at  the  bank 

aforesaid,  on  the  presentation  of  the  annexed  coupons,  as  they 
shall  severally  become  due. 

This  is  one  of  a  series  of  coupon  bonds  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Education  of  said  School  District,  amounting  in  the  aggregate 
to dollars,  numbered  from to ,  both  in- 
clusive; and  all  of  said  bonds  have  been  issued  for  money  bor- 
rowed by  said  Board  of  Education  under  the  provisions  of  Article 
XX.  of  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  establish  a  system  of  publia 
instruction,"  approved  March  26th,  1902,  and  by  the  consent  of 
the  inhabitants  of  said  district  lawfully  given,  at  a  meeting  law- 
fully held,  on ..,  190.. 

In  witness  whereof,  on  the day  of ,  in  the  year 

nineteen  hundred  and ,  this  bond  is  signed  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Education  of  the of ,  County 

of .....,..,  and  attested  by  the  District  Clerk,  under  the  seal  of 
the  Board. 


Attest :  President. 


District  Clerk. 
[SEAL.] 

[Form  of  Coupon  to  be  attached  to  the  above  Bond.~\ 


FOR   SCHOOL    OFFICERS.  107 


SCHOOL-HOUSE    LOAN. 

Board  of  Education  of  the of ,  County  of : 

Interest  warrant  for dollars,  payable  at  the 

bank,  at ,  "N.  J.,  to  bearer, ,  190.  .,  for  six  months' 

interest  on* Bond  No.  .  . 

,D.C. 


XL.     (Form   No.  55.) — Notice  to  the  Assessor  of  Amount  of  Tax  to  be 
Raised  for  Bonds  and  Interest. 

To ,  Assessor  of  the of ,  County  of : 

You  are  hereby  directed  to  assess  upon  the  inhabitants  of  the 

School  District  of ,  and  upon  their  estates,  and  the  taxable 

property  therein,  the  sum  of dollars,  pursuant  to  the  stat- 
ute in  such  case  made  and  provided. 

The  sum  ordered  to  be  assessed  is  to  be  used  for  the  purpose 
of  paying  the  principal  and  interest  falling  due  during  the  year 
for  which  said  assessment  is  made,  on  the  bonds  of  the  School 

District  of ,  in  the  County  of 

Dated  this day  of ,  190. . 

,  President.  \  Board  of  Education 

,  District  Cleric.   (      of 


XLI.     (Form  No.  55.) — Notice  to  County  Superintendent  of  Tax  for 
Bonds  and  Interest. 

To ,  County  Superintendent, County : 

You  are  hereby  notified  that  the  Assessor  of  the of , 

County  of ,  has  been  directed  to  assess  the  sum  of 

dollars,  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  principal  and  interest  fall- 
ing due  during  the  year  for  which  said  assessment  is  made  on 

the  bonds  of  the  school  district  of ,  in  the  County  of 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 

,  President.  )  Board  of  Education 

,  District  Clerk.    (       of 


168  BLANKS   AND    FORMS 


XLII.     (Form  No.  61.) — Report  of  Proceedings  Authorizing  the   Issue  of 

Bonds. 

,  .:£§ 

MINUTES    OF    BOARD    OF    EDUCATION    MEETING. 

Pursuant  to  notice  given  to  each  member,  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the  County  of , 

met  at ,  on  the day  of ,  190.  .,  at o'clock 

in  the There  were  present  Messrs On  motion  of 

Mr it  was  resolved  that  the  District  Clerk  is  hereby  directed 

to  post  notices  calling  a  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  the  Dis- 
trict, said  meeting  to  be  held  at ,  on  the.  .  .  .day  of , 

at ....  o'clock  in  the .......  and  that  in  said  notices  he  state  the 

following  items  of  business  to  be  acted  upon  at  said  meeting : 


District  Clerk. 
STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY, 


~  f  ss. 

COUNTY  OF j 

,  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath  saith  that  he  is  the 

District  Clerk  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the  County  of 

,  and  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  of  the  proceedings 

and   resolutions    adopted   by   the   Board    of   Education   of    said 

School  District  at  a  meeting  held  on  the day  of ,  190 .  . 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  "| 

me,  this day  of ,  > 

190..  J 


NOTICE. 


Notice  is  hereby  given  to  the  legal  voters  of  the  School  District 

of ,  in  the  County  of ,  that  a school 

meeting  will  beheld  at ,  on  the day  of , 

190.  .,  at o'clock  in  the. ,  at  which  meeting  will 

be  submitted  the  following  propositions : 


FOK    SCHOOL    OFFICEKS.  169 

The  amount  of  money  thought  to  be  necessary  for  the  fore- 
going is dollars. 

To  authorize  the  Board  of  Education  to  borrow  the  money 
ordered  to  be  raised  by  issuing  the  bonds  of  the  District 

Dated ,  190. . 

• ,  President.  )  School  District  of 

,D.C.          f         

STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY.  ) 

y  99 

COUNTY  OF j 

,  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath  saith  that  he  is  the 

District  Clerk  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the  County 

of ,  and  that  he  posted copies  of  a  notice,  of 

which  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy,  on  the day  of , 

190.  .,  in  public  places  in  said  District,  one  copy  being  posted  on 
each  school-house  in  the  District,  and  that  the  said  notices  were 
posted  in  all  respects  according  to  law. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  ^|  .  .  . 

me,  this day  of ,  > 

190..  J 


DISTRICT    MEETINGS. 

The  legal  voters  of  the  School  District  of ,  in  the 

County  of ,  met  at ,  on  the day  of , 

190.  .,  at o'clock  in  the ,  pursuant  to  legal  notice,  a 

copy  of  which  notice  is  hereto  appended.  Mr was 

elected  Chairman,  and  Mr Secretary  of  the  meeting. 

The  Secretary  read  the  notice  calling  the  meeting. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  the  Board  of  Education  be  authorized  to  pur- 
chase, as  a  lot  on  which  to  build  a  school-house,  the  plot  of  land 
situated  as  follows : 


The  cost  of  said  land  not  to  exceed  the  sum  of dollars. 

The  vote  on  this  resolution  was  by  ballot — Ayes,    ; 


170  BLANKS    AND    FORMS 

Resolved,  That  the  Board  of  Education  be  authorized  to  erect 
and  furnish  a  school-house  on  said  plot  of  land,  said  school-house 

to  be  built  of and  to  contain rooms,  and  to  cost 

not  more  than dollars. 

The  vote  on  this  resolution  was  by  ballot — Ayes,  ; 

Nays, 

Resolved,  That  for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  money  needed 
to  purchase  said  lot  and  to  erect  and  furnish  said  school-house 

the  sum  of dollars  be  raised  by  issuing  bonds  of  the 

District,  in  the  corporate  name  of  the  District,  in  the  denomina- 
tion of each. 

The  vote  on  this  resolution  was  by  ballot — Ayes,  ; 

Nays, 

Resolved,  That  one  bond  shall  be  issued  for.  . . years,  one 

for years,  one  for years,  one  for years.. 

And  that  each  year  until  the  last  bond  is  paid  a  tax  shall  be 
levied,  according  to  law,  on  the  property  and  the  inhabitants  of 
the  District  sufficient  to  pay  the  bond  maturing,  together  with 
the  accrued  interest  on  those  then  outstanding. 

The  vote  on  this  resolution  was  by  ballot — Ayes,  ; 

Nays, 


Secretary. 
STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY 


~  ,  55. 

COUNTY  OF 


•1 

9  being  duly  sworn,  on  his  oath  saith  that  he  was  the 

Secretary  of  the  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  the  School  District 

of ,  in  the  County  of ,  and  that  the  foregoing  is 

a  true  copy  of  the  proceedings  and  resolutions  adopted  at  said 
meeting,  and  that  all  votes  taken  at  said  meeting  were  by  ballot, 
and  that  the  ballots,  tally-sheets,  poll-list  and  statement,  of  the 
result  of  said  meeting  have  been  filed  with  the  County  Superin- 
tendent, as  required  by  law. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  | 

me,  this day  of ,  > 

190..  J 


FOE   SCHOOL   OFFICEKS.  171 


XLIII.     (Form   No.  62.) — Application  for  Loan  from  State  School   Fund. 

To  the  Trustees  for  the  Support  of  Public  Schools  for  the  State 
of  New  Jersey : 

The  Board  of  Education  of  the of ,  in 

the  County  of ,  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  ask  to  bor- 
row of  the  Trustees' for  the  Support  of  Public  Schools  the  sum  of 

dollars,  and  offer  as  security  for  said  loan  the  coupon 

bonds  of  said  District  to  the  amount  at  par  of  said  loan.  Said 
loan  and  bonds  were  authorized  by  the  legal  voters  of  the  School 
District  when  met,  upon  due  and  legal  notice,  for  that  purpose, 

upon  the day  of ,  190.  .  The  principal  of  said 

loan  is  to  be  paid  in  installments  of dollars ;  the  first 

installment  to  be  paid  on  the day  of ,  190.  .  ; 

the  second  installment  to  be  paid  on  the day  of r 

190  , 

with  interest  from  date  at  the  rate  of per  centum  per 

annum,  according  to  the  terms  aforesaid;  principal  and  interest 

payable  at  the bank  at ,  and  the  bonds  hereby 

offered  are  of  the  denomination  of  $ ....  each,  and  are  numbered 
from to ,  both  inclusive. 

We  submit  herewith  a  copy  of  the  proceedings  had  at  said 
meeting  of  said  legal  voters,  a  copy  of  the  minutes  of  the  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Education  at  which  the  posting  of  the  notices 
calling  said  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  was  ordered,  a  copy  of 
the  notices  calling  said  meeting  duly  verified  by  affidavit,  and 
the  approval  of  the  Attorney-General  as  to  the  legality  of  said 
proceedings. 

Dated ,  K  J., ,  190.. 


President. 
District  Cleric- 


172  BLANKS    AKD    FORMS 


XLIV.     (Form  No.  60.) — Directions  for  Bonding  a  District. 

1.  There  must  "be  a  regularly-called  meeting  of  the  board  of 
education,   of  which  meeting   all  the  members  must  have  had 
notice.     At  that  meeting  the  board  must  decide  on  the  amount 
of  money  thought  to  be  necessary.     If  land  is  to  be  purchased, 
the  board  must  decide  upon  the  site  or  sites  it  thinks  suitable. 
It  must  also  decide  upon  the  time  for  holding  the  district  meet- 
ing, and  the  form  of  the  resolutions  to  be  inserted  in  the  notices 
to  be  posted  by  the  district  clerk.     Full  minutes  of  the  meeting 
must  be  kept. 

2.  The  district  clerk  must  post  the  notices  ordered  by  the  board 
at  least  ten  days  before  the  date  of  the  meeting  of  the  legal  voters. 
The  day  the  notices  are  posted  must  not  be  counted  in  the  ten 
days.     The  notices  must  state  the  time  and  place  of  the  district 
•meeting,  and  all  business  that  is  to  be  acted  upon.     If  land  is  to 
be  purchased,  the  plot  or  plots  thought  to  be  suitable  by  the  board 
must  be  described.     Any  description  that  will  enable  the  legal 
voters  to  locate  the  plot  is  sufficient.    The  board  may  submit  more 
than  one  site,  if  it  thinks  best,  in  which  case  all  the  plots  must 
be  described.     The  notices  must  also  state  the  amount  of  money 
thought  to  be  necessary.    It  is  not  necessary  to  divide  the  amount 
among  the-  several  objects.     The  notices  must  also  state  that  the 
question  of  authorizing  the  board  to  issue  bonds  will  be  submitted. 
Not  less  than  seven  notices  must  be  posted,  one  of  which  must  be 
posted  on  each  school-house  in  the  district.     It  is  not  necessary 
that  the  notices  state  the  number  of  bonds  to  be  issued,  the  de- 
nomination of  the  bonds,  or  the  time  of  payment.     These  items 
should  be  left  to  the  determination  of  the  legal  voters. 

3.  The  district  meeting  must  decide  the  amount  of  money  to 
be  raised,  and  also  decide  what  portion  of  the  money  so  ordered 
shall  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  land,  and  what  portion  for 
building  and  furnishing  the  school-house.     The  aggregate  amount 
ordered  raised  must  not  exceed  the  sum  named  in  the  notices. 
The  district  meeting  must  also  decide  how  many  bonds  shall  be 
issued,  the  denomination  of  each  bond,  and  the  time  of  its  pay- 
ment.    The  meeting  may  reject  all  the  sites  offered,  but  cannot 
select  a  site  not  described  in  the  notices  calling  the  meeting.     All 


FOE    SCHOOL 

)tes  in  the  district  meeting  must  be  by  ballot.     Full  minutes  of 
le  meeting  must  be  kept, 

4.  The  chairman  must  appoint  two  tellers  to  receive  and  count 
the  ballots.     At  the  annual  meeting  in  March,  if  a  tax  or  the 
issue  of  bonds  is  to  be  voted  on,  two  ballot-boxes,  with  separate 
tellers  for  each  box,  must  be  provided,  one  box  to  be  used  for 
ballots  for  tax  and  bonds  and  the  other  for  members  of  the  board 
of  education.     The  secretary  must  keep  a  poll-list  of  the  voters- 
and  tally-sheet  of  the  ballots  as  counted.     The  tally-sheet  must  be 
signed  by  the  chairman  and  tellers.     The  poll-list,  tally-sheet  and 
ballots  must  be  placed  by  the  secretary  in  a  sealed  package,  in- 
dorsed with  the  name  of  the  district,  the  county  in  which  it  is 
situated  and  the  date  of  the  meeting.     A  statement  of  the  result 
of  the  meeting  must  be  signed  by  the  chairman  and  secretary ,. 
and,  together  with  said  package,  forwarded  to  the  County  Super- 
intendent within  five  days  after  said  meeting  shall  have  been 
held. 

5.  Two  copies  of  the  minutes  of  the  meeting  of  the  boardr 
attested  by  the  district  clerk,  two  copies  of  the  notices  posted,, 
attested  by  said  clerk,  and  two  copies  of  the  minutes  of  the  dis- 
trict meeting,  attested  by  the  secretary  of  the  meeting,  must  be 
sent  to  the  State  Superintendent,  one  copy  to  be  approved  by  the 
Attorney-General,  and  the  other  to  be  filed  in  his  office.     When 
it  is  intended  to  borrow  the  money  from  the  State  School  Fund, 
an   application  must  accompany  the  copies  of  the  proceedings* 
sent  to  the  State  Superintendent.     Blank  forms  to  be  used  for 
the  copies  of  the  proceedings  to  be  sent  to  the  State  Superin- 
tendent may  be  obtained  from  the  County  Superintendent.     In 
making  reports,  only  such  business  as  relates  to  the  purchase  of 
land,  building  and  furnishing  the  school-house  and  bonding  the 
district  need  be  inserted  in  the  copies  of  the  minutes  of  the 
meetings  of  the  board  and  legal  voters.     In  the  blank  for  the 
report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  district  meeting,  a  resolution  is 
inserted  for  the  purchase  of  land ;  when  land  is  not  ordered  to  be 
purchased,  this  resolution  should  be  crossed  out  in  making  the 
report. 

6.  The  approval  of  the  Attorney-General  must  be  secured  before 
bonds  can  be  legally  issued,  whether  the  money  is  to  be  borrowed 
from  the  State  School  Fund  or  from  private  parties. 


174  BLANKS   AXD    FOEMS 

7.  When  district  bonds  have  been  issued,  it  is  the  duty  of  the 
district  clerk,  when  any  bond  is  paid  and  canceled,  to  forward 
said  canceled  bond  to  the  State  Superintendent,  to  be  filed  as 
required  by  law. 

8.  Blank  bonds  will  be  furnished  by  the  State  Superintendent. 


XLV.     Notice  for  a  Meeting  of  the  District  Board  of  Education. 

To : 

You  are  hereby  notified  that  there  will  be  a  meeting  of  the 

Board  of  Education  of  the  School  District  of ,  on 

evening, ,  190.  .,  at o'clock,  in  the  school-house, 

[Date.]  , 

District  Clerk. 


XLVI.     Notice  to  be  given  by  the  Secretary  of  a  District  School  Meeting 
to  the  Officers-elect. 

To : 

You  are  hereby  notified  that  at  the  annual  school  meeting  in 

the  School  District  of ,  in  the  County  of ,  held  on 

the day  of ,  190.  .,  you  were  elected  a  member  of 

the  Board  of  Education  in  said  District. 

Dated  this day  of ,  190. . 


Secretary  of  said  Meeting. 


XLV  1 1.     Form  of  a  Lease. 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  A,  B.,  of  the 

of ,  in  the  County  of ,  in  the  State  of  New  Jer- 
sey, of  the  first  part,  for  the  consideration  herein  mentioned, 

does  hereby  lease  unto  "The  Board  of  Education  of  the 

of ,  in  the  County  of ,"  in  the  State  afore- 
said, party  of  the  second  part,  and  its  assigns,  the  following- 
described  parcel  of  land: 

[Here  insert  description  of  land.] 


FOE   SCHOOL   OFFICEKS.  175 

Together  with  all  the  privileges  and  appurtenances  thereunto 
belonging:  To  have  and  to  hold  the  same  for  and  during  the 

term  of years  from  the day  of ,  A.  D. 

190 .  .  ;  and  the  said  party  of  the  second  part,  for  itself  and 
assigns,  does  covenant  and  agree  to  pay  the  said  party  of  the  first 
part,  for  said  premises,  the  annual  rent  of dollars. 

In  testimony  whereof,  the  said  parties  have  hereunto  set  their 

hands  and  seals,  this day  of ,  190.  . 

A.  B.,  Lessor. 

,  President. 

,  District  Clerk. 


XLVIII.     Form  of  a  Deed  of  a  School-House  Site. 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  A.  B.   \md  C.  B.f  his 

wife,  if  married] ,  in  the of ,  in  the  County  of 

,  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  party  of  the  first  part,  for 

and  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of dollars,  to  them  in 

hand  paid  by  "The  Board  of  Education  of  the of V,, 

in  the  County  of ,"  and  State  aforesaid,  party  of  the 

second  part,  the  receipt  whereof  is  hereby  'acknowledged,  do 
hereby  grant,  bargain,  sell  and  convey  to  the  said  party  of  the 
second  part,  and  its  assigns,  the  following-described  piece  of 
land,  namely: 

[Here  insert  description  of  land.~] 

Together  with  all  the  privileges  and  appurtenances  thereunto 
belonging:  To  have  and  to  hold  the  same  to  the  said  party  of 
the  second  part  and  its  assigns  forever;  and  the  said  party  of 
the  first  part,  for  themselves,  their  heirs,  executors  and  adminis- 
trators, do  covenant,  bargain  and  agree,  to  and  with  the  said 
party  of  the  second  part,  and  its  assigns,  that  at  the  time  of  the 
unsealing  and  delivery  of  these  presents,  they  are  well  seized  of 
the  premises  above  conveyed,  as  of  a  good,  sure,  perfect,  abso- 
lute and  indefeasible  estate  of  inheritance  in  the  law  in  fee- 
simple,  and  that  the  said  lands  and  premises  are  free  from  all 
incumbrances  whatsoever ;  and  that  the  above-bargained  premises, 
in  the  quiet  and  peaceable  possession  of  the  said  party  of  the 
second  part,  and  its  assigns,  against  all  and  every  person  or 
persons  lawfully  claiming  or  to  claim,  the  whole  or  any  part 


176  BLANKS   AND    FOBMS 

thereof,  the  said  party  of  the  first  part  will  forever  warrant  and 
defend. 

In  witness  whereof,  the  said  A.  B.  and  C.  B.,  his  wife,  party 
of  the  first  part,  have  hereunto  set  their  hands  and  seals,  this 

day  of ,  A.  D.  190. . 

Signed,  sealed  and  delivered  in 

presence  of 

E.  F. 

A.  B. 

C.  B.  [SEAL.] 

NOTE. — Such  deeds  should  be  duly  acknowledged  before  a  judge,  commissioner 
of  deeds,  master  in  chancery  or  other  officer  authorized  by  law  to  take  such, 
acknowledgment,  and  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk.  The  bond  and 
mortgage  given  by  the  board  of  education  to  secure  payment  of  part  of  purchase- 
money  may  be  in  the  usual  forms,  and  for  the  execution  of  deeds,  mortgages 
and  bonds  each  district  should  have  a  corporate  seal.  Notes  given  for  borrowed 
money  should  be  in  the  name  of  the  district  and  signed  by  the  president  and 
district  clerk. 


XLIX.     Contract  for  Building  a  School-House. 

i 

Contract  made  and  entered  into  between  A.  B.,  of  the  County 

of ,  State  of  New  Jersey,  and  "The  Board  of  Education  of 

the of ,  in  the  County  of ,"  State  of 

New  Jersey. 

In  consideration  of  the  sum  of  one  dollar  in  hand  paid,  the- 
receipt  whereof  is  hereby  acknowledged,  and  of  the  further  sum 

of dollars,  to  be  paid  as  hereinafter  specified,  the  said  A.  B. 

agrees  to  build  a  frame  school-house  and  to  furnish  the  materials 
therefor,  according  to  the  plans  and  specifications  for  the  erection 
of  said  house  hereto  appended,  at  such  point  in  said  District  as 
the  said  Board  may  designate.  The  said  house  is  to  be  built  of 
the  best  material,  in  a  substantial,  workmanlike  man  Tier;  and  is- 
to  be  completed  and  delivered  to*  said  Board,  free  from  any  lien 

for  work  done  or  materials  furnished,  by  the day  of 

,  190..;  and  in  case  the  said  house  is  not  finished  in 

the  time  herein  specified,  the  said  A.  B.  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to- 

the  said  Board,  for  the  use  of  said  District,  the  sum  of 

dollars,  and  shall  also  be  liable  for  all  damages  that  may  result 
in  consequence  of  such  failure,  and  said  Board  may  finish  the 
building  and  charge  the  cost  of  the  same  to  the  said  A.  B. 


FOR    SCHOOL   OFFICERS.  177 

Board  hereby  agrees  to  pay  the  said  A.  B.  the  sum 
dollars  when  the  foundation  of  said  house  is  finished, 
and  the  further  sum  of .......  dollars  when  the  building  is  ready 

for  the  roof ;  and  the  remaining  sum  of dollars  when  the 

said  house  is  finished  and  delivered,  as  herein  stipulated. 

It  is  further  agreed,  that  this  contract  shall  not  be  sub-let, 
transferred  or  assigned  without  the  consent  of  both  parties. 

Witness  our  hands  this day  of ,  190.  . 

A.  B.,  Contractor. 

. ,  President. 

,  District  Clerk. 

NOTE. — In  building  a  school-house,  it  is  all-important  to  secure  a  plan  of  the 
building,  with  full  specifications  as  to  its  dimensions,  style  of  architecture, 
number  and  size  of  the  windows  and  doors,  quality  of  materials  to  be  used ; 
what  kind  of  roof ;  number  of  coats  of  paints ;  of  what  material  the  foundation 
shall  be  constructed ;  its  depth  below,  and  its  height  above  the  surface  of  the 
ground ;  the  number  and  style  of  chimneys  and  flues ;  the  provisions  for  ventila- 
tion ;  the  number  of  coats  of  plastering,  and  style  of  finish,  and  all  other  items 
in  detail  that  may  be  deemed  necessary.  The  plan  and  specifications  should  be 
attached  to  the  contract,  and  the  whole  filed  with  the  district  clerk.  Before  the 
building  is  commenced,  the  contract  and  specifications  should  be  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  county  clerk  to  prevent  liens.  All  plans  and  specifications  must  be 
submitted  to  the  State  Board  of  Education  for  approval. 


L.     Form  of  Note  for  Money  Borrowed. 

,K  J., ,  190.. 

days  after  date,  "The  Board  of  Education  of  the 

of ,  in  the  County  of ,"  State  of  New 

Jersey,  promises  to  pay  to ,  or  order,  dollars, 

with  interest  from  the  date  thereof,  at  the  rate  of per 

cent,  per  annum. 

This  note  is  given  for  money  borrowed  by  said  Board  for  the 

purpose  of ,  pursuant  to  the  statute  entitled  "An  act  to 

establish  a  system  of  public  instruction,"  approved  March  26th, 
1902,  and  by  the  consent  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  district 
lawfully  given,  at  a  meeting  lawfully  held  on ,  190.  . 


Attest :  President. 


District  Cleric. 
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LI.     Duties  of  District  Clerk. 

1.  To  prepare  and  post 

Notices  for  annual  district  meeting, 
Notices  for  special  district  meeting. 

2.  To  prepare  and  deliver  notices  for  meetings  of  the  board  of 
education. 

3.  To  act  as  secretary  of  the  board  of  education. 

4.  To  record,  in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose,  all  the  pro- 
ceedings of  board  of  education  meetings  and  district  meetings. 

5.  To  keep  an  account  of  the  finances  of  the  district. 

6.  To  pay  out  all  moneys  by  issuing  orders  on  the  custodian 
of  school  moneys. 

Y.  To  make  a  financial  report  to  county  superintendent. 

8.  To  make  a  report  of  the  doings  of  the  board  for  the  year  to 
the  annual  district  meeting  for  the  election  of  members  of  the 
board  of  education. 

9.  To  prepare  and  -forward  the  annual  report  of  the  county 
superintendent. 

10.  To  notify  county  superintendent  and  township  assessor  of 
the  amount  of  district  school  tax  ordered. 

11.  To  notify  county  superintendent  of  the  election  of  mem- 
bers of  the  board. 

12.  To  buy  fuel,  crayons  and  such  other  articles  as  the  board 
may  direct. 

13.  To  deliver  to  his  successor  all  records  and  papers  belong- 
ing to  the  district. 


FOR    SCHOOL    OFFICERS. 


179 


TEACHERS. 


LI  I.      (Form   No.  18.) — Directions  Given  to  Candidates  for  Certificates 
Before   Being   Examined. 

1.  Write  your  name  and  the  subject  of  the  examination,  dis- 
tinctly, at  the  top  of  each  page. 

2.  You  need  not  copy  the  questions  upon  the  paper,  but  be 
careful  to  number  each  answer  to  correspond  with  the  question. 

3.  If  unable  to  answer  any  questions,  write  its  proper  number, 
and  opposite  the  same  write,  "I  cannot  answer." 

4.  In  answering  questions  in  arithmetic,  algebra,  &c.,  give  the 
work  as  well  as  the  answer. 

5.  As  soon  as  one  exercise  is  finished,  hand  it  to  the  examiner 
before  beginning  another. 

6.  After  beginning  a  set  of  questions,  do  not  leave  the  room 
without  the  permission  of  the   examiner   in   charge  until   that 
exercise  is  completed. 

7.  Avoid  all  communications  with  other  candidates,  with  visi- 
tors, or  with  anyone  else,  except  the  examiners,  whether  by  talk- 
ing or  otherwise.     Exercises  prepared  in  violation  of  this  rule 
will  be  rejected. 

8.  All  referring  to  text-books,  or  to  written  or  printed  abstracts, 
or  memoranda  of  any  kind,  is  forbidden.     A  violation  of  this 
rule  will  cause  your  entire  examination  to  be  rejected. 

9.  Do  not  tear  off  any  portion  of  the  sheet  that  may  remain 
after  you  have  finished  a  set  of  questions,  but  leave  the  sheet 
whole,  as  the  paper  will  be  preserved. 

10.  Be  careful  to  preserve  this  card  of  directions  and  questions. 
They  will  both  be  called  for  at  the  close  of  the  examination. 


180  BLANKS    A2TD    FORMS 


RULES  FOR  EXAMINATIONS  FOR  STATE  CERTIFICATES 


1.  Examinations  for  State  Certificates  are  held  at  the  State 
House,  in  Trenton,  on  the  first  Thursday,  Friday  and  Saturday 
of  June  and  December. 

2.  In  any  examination  the  diploma  of  a  university  or  college, 
authorized   to  confer  degrees,   may  be   accepted   in  lieu   of   an 
examination  in  the  academic  subjects  prescribed,   provided  the 
course  of  study  covered  by  said  diploma  shall  include  said  pre- 
scribed subjects  or  other  equivalent,  and  shall  not  have  been  pur- 
sued through  correspondence.      The  State  Board  of  Examiners 
may,  in  lieu  of  an  examination  in  any  of  the  subjects,  accept  such 
credentials  as  it  may  deem  conclusive  evidence  of  scholarship  and 
professional  qualification. 

3.  Any  certificate  of  any  grade,  issued  in  this  State,  in  full 
force  and  effect,  or  which  shall  have  been  in  full  force  and  effect 
within  one  year  next  preceding  the  date  of  the  examination,  may 
be  accepted  in  lieu  of  an  examination  in  the  academic  subjects 
covered  by  s'aid  certificate,  provided  said  certificate  shall  show  a 
general  average  of  not  less  than  75  per  cent. 

4.  The  subjects  shall  be  assigned  in  the  following  order: 
Thursday. — Geometry,  Literature,  Chemistry  and  Botany. 
Friday. — Drawing,  Psychology,  School  Law,  Manual  Training, 

Principles  and  Practice  of  the  Kindergarten,  Music  and  Ancient 
or  Modern  Languages,  Bookkeeping,  Commercial  Arithmetic. 

Saturday. — Physical  Training,  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teach- 
ing, History  of  Education,  Science  of  Education,  Stenography, 
Business  Practice. 

5.  No  certificate  shall  be  issued  to  a  teacher  whose  percentage 
in  any  subject  shall  fall  below  70. 

6.  A  Third-Grade  State  Certificate  is  valid  for  seven  years 
from  its  date,  and  may  be  renewed  without  re-examination.     No 
experience  in  teaching  is  required.      An   applicant  must  be   at 
least  twenty  years  of  age.     In  addition  to  the  subjects  required 
for  a  First-Grade  County  Certificate,  he  will  be  examined  in— 

Plane  and  Solid  Geometry,  Literature,  Botany,  Eree-Hand 
Drawing,  Psychology,  or  in  lieu  of  one  or  more  of  said  subjects, 


FOR    SCHOOL    OFFICERS. 


UNIVERSITY 

181 


such  other  subject  or  subjects  as  the  State  Board  of  Examiners 
shall  regard  as  the  equivalent  thereof. 

7.  A  Second-Grade  State  Certificate  is  valid  for  ten  years  from 
its  date,  and  may  be  renewed  without  re-examination.     An  expe- 
rience in  teaching  of  not  less  than  two  years  is  required.     An 
applicant  must  be  at  least  twenty-one  years  of  age.     In  addition 
to  the  subjects  required  for  a  Third-Grade  State  Certificate,  he 
will  be  examined  in — 

Chemistry,  Manual  Training,  Physical  Training,  Science  of 
Education. 

8.  A  First-Grade  State  Certificate  is  valid  for  life.     An  expe- 
rience in  teaching  of  not  less  than  five  years  is  required.     The 
examination  is  the  same  as  that  required  for   a   Second-Grade 
State  Certificate.     This  certificate  is  issued  only  to  a  teacher  who 
presents   satisfactory,   evidence   of   success   as    a   superintendent, 
supervising  principal  or  a  principal  of  a  graded  school  employ- 
ing not  less  than  five  teachers,  or  in  such  other  capacity  as  the 
State  Board  of  Examiners  shall  regard  as  the  equivalent  thereof. 
An  applicant  must  be  at  least  twenty-five  years  of  age. 

9.  A  college  graduate,  whose  diploma  is  accepted  in  lieu  of  an 
examination  in  the  academic  subjects,  will  be  examined  in  such 
of  the  following  subjects  as  are  not  covered  by  his  diploma: 

Third-Grade  State  Certificate- 
Theory   and   Practice,    School   Law,    Psychology,    History   of 

Education. 

Second-Grade    State   Certificate,    in    addition   to   the   subjects 

above  named — 

Science  of  Education,  Manual  Training,  Physical  Training. 

10.  Any  person  desiring  to  take  an  examination  in  any  sub- 
ject or  subjects  in  lieu  of  those  specified,  must  make  application 
therefor  to  the  State  Board  of  Examiners  at  least  four  weeks  prior 
to  the  date  of  the  examination. 

11.  Special  State  Certificates  are  valid  for  five  years,  and  may 
be    renewed    without    re-examination.      Special    Certificates    are 
granted  to  teach  the  following  subjects: 

Kindergarten,  Manual  Training,  Physical  Training,  Drawing, 
Music,  Ancient  Languages  or  Modern  Languages  and  Commercial 
Branches. 

12.  An  applicant  for  a  Special  Certificate  must  present  either 
a  diploma  from  a  high  school  or  a  Teachers'  Certificate  valid  in 


182  BLANKS    AND   FORMS 

New  Jersey,  other  than  Special,  which  has  been  in  full  force  and 
effect  within  one  year  next  preceding  the  examination. 

13.  The  subjects  for  a  Special  Kindergarten  Certificate  or  a 
Certificate  to  Teach  Ancient  Languages  or  Modern  Languages, 
are:    History  of  Education,  Psychology,  Theory  and  Practice  of 
Teaching,  School  Law  and  the  special  subject  to  be  taught.     And 
in  addition  thereto,  for  a  Kindergarten  Certificate,  an  examina- 
tion in  Drawing. 

14.  The  subjects  for  a  Special  Certificate  to  Teach  Drawing, 
Manual  Training,  Physical  Training  or  Music,  are:    Psychology, 
History  of  Education,  School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  and  the  special 
subject  to  be  taught,  and  in  addition  thereto,  for  a  Certificate  to 
Teach  Drawing,  an  examination  in  Plane  Geometry. 

15.  The  subjects  for  a  Special  Certificate  to  Teach  Commercial 
Branches,  are:    Psychology,  School  Law  of.  New  Jersey,  Book- 
keeping,    Commercial    Arithmetic,     Stenography,     Theory    and 
Practice  of  Teaching,  History  of  Education  and  Business  Practice. 

16.  A  graduate  of  the  former  Elementary  Course  of  the  State 
Normal  School  may  be  granted  a  Normal  Life  Certificate  upon 
passing  an  examination  in  Physics,  Chemistry,  Literature,  Geom- 
etry, History  of  Education,  Science  of  Education  and  School  Law 
of  New  Jersey,  or  in  lieu  of  one  or  more  of  said  subjects,  such  other 
subject  or  subjects  as  the  State  Board  of  Examiners  shall  regard 
as  the  equivalent  thereof. 

17.  The  following  text-books  will  indicate  about  the  extent  of 
the  examination  in  the  subjects  named : 

Theory  and  Practice. — Lectures  on  Teaching  (Fitch),  School 
Management  (White),  Courses  and  Methods  (Prince),  Lectures 
on  Education  (Jos.  Payne),  Psychology,  Briefer  course  (James), 
Hand-Book  of  Psychology  (Murray),  Theory  and  Practice  of 
Teaching  (Page). 

Science  of  Education. — Elements  of  Pedagogy  (White),  Philos- 
ophy of  Education,  Spencer's  Edition  (Tompkins),  Science  of 
Education  (Rosenkranz). 

History  of  Education. — (Compayre,  Painter,  Williams),  Eflu- 
cational  Reforms  (Quick),  History  of  Education  (Seeley). 

Physical  Training. — Light  Gymnastics  (W.  G.  Anderson), 
Swedish  System  of  Educational  Gymnastics  (Baron  Nils  Posse), 
Physiology  of  Bodily  Exercise  (Lagrange),  Gymnastics  in  the 
School-Room  (Hans  Ballin),  Progressive  Gymnastics,  Day's 
Orders  (Enebriske). 


FOR    SCHOOL    OFFICEKS.  183 

Manual  Training. — Industrial  Education  (Love),  Manual 
Training  (Charles  Ham),  The  Manual  Training  School  (Wood- 
ward). 

In  all  other  subjects,  the  scope  of  the  examination  will  corre- 
spond to  the  subject-matter  of  the  ordinary  text-book. 

18.  The  subjects  required  for  a  First-Grade  County  Certificate 
are — 

Orthography,  Reading,  Penmanship,  Geography,  Arithmetic, 
English  Grammar,  United  States  History,  English  Composition, 
Physiology,  Bookkeeping,  Drawing,  Algebra,  Physics,  General 
History,  Civics,  Plane  Geometry,  Theory  and  Practice  of  Teach- 
ing, School  Law  of  New  Jersey,  History  of  Education. 

19.  All    communications    should    be    addressed    to    the    State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  who  will  furnish  blank  ap- 
plications for  examination. 


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RULES  FOR  ENDORSEMENT  OF  STATE  CERTIFICATES 
AND  NORMAL  DIPLOMAS. 


1.  The  applicant  must  forward  his  certificate  or  diploma  for 
inspection  and  file  original  testimonials   as  to  moral  character 
and  success  as  a  teacher. 

2.  A  Second-Grade  Certificate,  valid  for  two  years,  may  be 
granted  to  the  holder  of  a  normal  school  or  teachers'  college  diploma 
or  a  permanent  certificate  to  teach  in  another  State,  and  valid  as  a 
State  certificate  therein  when  the  requirements  for  such  diploma 
or  certificate  shall  be  equivalent  to  those  required  in  this  State. 
After  two  years7  successful  teaching  in  this  State  such  diploma 
or  certificate  may  be  indorsed  and  made  a  valid  life  license  to 
teach  in  this  State, 

3.  Blank   applications   for  indorsement  will  be  furnished  by 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 


LV.     (Form  No.  34.)— Certificate  that  Child  has  Attended  School. 

I  hereby  certify  that  I  am  Principal  of  School  No ,  in 

the of .  .  .  , ,  County  of ,  and  that  [name 

of  child]  is  the  \_son,  daughter  or  wa/rd~\  of  [name  of  parent  or 
guardian],  residing  at  [street  and  city]  ;  that  to  the  best  of  my 

knowledge  and  belief,  said  [name  of  child']  is years  of  age ; 

and  said  [name  of  child]  has  attended  school  under  my  charge, 

five  days  a  week,  for weeks,  during  the  year  preceding  the 

date  of  this  certificate. 

Dated ,  190.  . 


Principal. 


FOE   SCHOOL    OFFICEKS. 


185 


LVI. 


Teacher's  Report  to  the   County  Superintendent  when    Leaving   a 
School  before  the  end  of  the  School  Year. 


Eeport  of  the  Teacher  of  Public  School  ISTo ,  in  the 

of ,  in  the  County  of ,  for  the  portion  of 

the  School  Year  commencing 1st,  190.  .,  and  end- 
ing  ,190.  . 

[The  body  of  the  Report  same  as  Annual  Report  in  the  Register. ] 

To ,  County  Superintendent  for County : 

Being  about  to  leave  my  present  school,  I  respectfully  present 
the  above  record  and  statements  as  my  report  for  the  expired 
portion  of  the  present  School  Year,  as  required  by  the  laws  of 
this  State ;  which  report  I  hereby  certify  has  been  carefully  made 
out  from  the  records  contained  in  the  School  Register. 


Teacher. 

NOTE. — The  law  requires  that  a  duplicate  of  the  above  report  shall  be  made 
.to  the  district  clerk. 


LVI  I.     Teacher's   Report  of  the  Suspension  of  a  Pupil   to  the   Board  of 

Education. 

To ,  District  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Education  of 

the of ,  of  the  County  of : 

SIR — -You  are  hereby  notified  that  I  have  this  day  suspended 
from  my  school ,  for  [here  state  the  cause  for  suspension^] . 

Dated  this day  of ,  190.  . 


Teacher. 

NOTE. — The  school  law  requires  every  suspension  to  be  reported  to  the  board 
of  education. 


186  BLANKS    AND    FOBMS 


CALENDAR  FOR  SCHOOL  ELECTIONS  AND  DUTIES 


1.  State  Board  of  Education. — Meets  .on  the  first  Tuesday  of 
February,  April,  June,  October  and  December,  annually. 

2.  State  Board  of  Examiners. — Meets  on  the  first  Thursday, 
Friday  and  Saturday  of  June  and  December,  annually,  at  the 
State  House. 

3.  County  Boards  of  Examiners. — Meet  on  the  first  Friday  and 
Saturday  of  February,  May  and  October,  annually. 

4.  Boards  of  Education. — Elected  on   the  third   Tuesday  in 
March,  annually,  and  should  meet  at  least  once  in  two  months 
during  the  period  that  the  school  shall  be  in  session. 

5.  District  Clerics. — Elected  within  ten  days  after  the  annual 
meeting  for  the  election  for  members  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
annually. 

6.  District  Meetings  for  Voting  District  Tax.—JLeld.  on  the 
third  Tuesday  in  March,  annually,  or  at  the  call  of  the  Board  of 
Education. 

7.  Report  of  the  State  Board  of  Education  to  the  Governor.— 
On  the  first  Tuesday  in  December,  annually. 

8.  Report  of  the  State  Superintendent  to  the  State  Board  of 
Education. — On  the  first  Tuesday  in  December,  annually. 

9.  Report  of  County  Superintendent  to  the  State  Superintend- 
ent.— On  or  before  the  first  of  September,  annually. 

10.  Report  of  the  District  Clerics  to  County  Superintendent.— 
On  or  before  the  first  of  August,  annually. 

11.  Report  of  Teachers  to  Board  of  Education. — At  the  close  of 
each  quarter's  teaching,  or  as  directed  by  the  rules  of  the  Board. 

12.  Financial  Statement  of  Township  Collector  to  Township 
Committee  and  County  Superintendent. — On  or  before  the  first  of 
August,  annually. 

13.  Financial  Statement  of  District  Clerks  to  Township  Com- 
mittee.— On  or  before  the  first  of  August,  annually. 

14.  Financial  Statement  of  District  Clerks  to  the  County  Super- 
intendent.— On  or  before  the  first  of  August,  annually. 

15.  Assessor  Makes  Returns  to  Collector. — Within  fifteen  days 
after  the  first  Monday  in  September,  annually. 


FOR    SCHOOL    OFFICERS.  187 

16.  State  School   Tax. — To  be  paid  to  the  State   Treasurer 
within  twenty-five  days  after  the  same  shall  be  due  and  payable 
to  the  County  Collector.     To  be  paid  to  the  County  Collector 
within  fifteen  days  after  said  tax  shall  be  due  and  payable. 

17.  School  Tax. — Collected  and  due  the  Board  of  Education 
by  the  fifth  of  January,  annually. 

18.  Apportionment  of  the  State  Appropriation  to  the  Counties. 
—Made  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  February,  annually. 

19.  Report  of  Teachers  Employed. — Made  by  the  Board  of 
Education  to  the  County  Superintendent  on  or  before  March  fif- 
teenth, annually. 

20.  Apportionment  of  the  State  Appropriation  and  Township 
School  Taxes  to  the  District. — Made  by  the  County  Superintend- 
ent on  or  before  the  first  day  of  April,  annually. 

21.  State  Appropriation. — Two  hundred  thousand  dollars  paid 
in  November,  and  the  State  school  tax  in  the  month  of  January 
following. 

22.  Agricultural  College. — Candidates  examined  by  the  County 
and  City  Superintendents  on  the  first  Saturday  in  June. 

23.  School  Holidays. — First  day  of  January,  Lincoln's  birthday, 
Washington's  birthday,  Memorial  day,  fourth  day  of  July,  Labor 
day,  Thanksgiving  day,  Christmas  day,  any  day  upon  which  a 
general  election  shall  be  held  for  members  of  Assembly,  and  also 
any  day  set  apart  by  proclamation  of  the  Governor  of  this  State 
or  the  President  of  the  United  States  for  the  purpose  of  public 
observance. 

24.  Patriotic  Exercises. — Held  on  the  last  school  day  preceding 
Lincoln's  birthday,  Washington's  birthday,  Decoration  or  Memo- 
rial day  and  Thanksgiving  day. 

25.  School  Year. — Commences  on  the  first  day  of  July  and  ends 
on  the  thirtieth  day  of  June. 

27.  Library  Year. — The  school  library  year  and  the  teachers' 
library  year  coincides  with  the  State  fiscal  year,  and  begins  on 
the  first  day  of  November  and  ends  on  the  thirty-first  day  of 
October. 


INDEX. 


(189) 


INDEX. 


A. 

Pages. 

Affidavits,  Assistant  State  Superintendent  may  take,  section  21 13 

bills,  verified  by,  sections  62  and  95 27,  42 

County  Superintendent  may  take,  section  26,  division  1 14 

deaf,  in  school  for,  section  203 86 

District  Clerk  may  take,  section  95 42 

State  Superintendent  may  take,  section  21 13 

Ages  of  children  in  evening  schools,  section  142 60 

factories,  section  149 62 

kindergartens,  section  139 59 

public  schools,  section  110 47 

pupils,  compulsory,  sections  147,  149  and  152 61,  62 

Agricultural  College,  appropriations  for,  sections  4  and  5 114 

examinations  for,  sections  1  and  3 112,  114 

scholarships  in,  sections  1  to  5 112 

Alcohol  and  narcotics,  effects  of  to  be  taught,  sections  237  and  238.  .  .104,  105 
Appeals  to  State  Board  of  Education,  sections  3,  division  V.,  10,  13  and 

16   8,  9,  10,  11 

Appointment,  Assistant  City  Superintendent,  sections  67  and  68 29 

Assistant  State  Superintendent,  section  7 9 

boards  of  education  in  boroughs,  towns  and  townships,  sec- 
tions 26,  division  IV.,  35  and  91,  division  1 15,  19,  39 

boards  of  education  in  cities,  sections  42  and  80 23,  34 

of  education,  union-graded  schools,  section  127 54 

of  school  estimate,  section  75 31 

Business  Manager,  sections  53  and  72 25,  30 

City  Superintendents,  sections  53  and  66 25,  29 

County  Superintendents,  sections  3,  division  II.,  12  and  23, 

8,  10,  13 

Custodian  of  school  moneys,  section  183 80 

District  Clerk,  section  90 38 

examiners,  county,  section  31. 16 

district,  section  32 17 

State,  section  30 15 

secretary  board  of  education,  sections  53  and  58 25,  27 

State  Board  of  Education,  section  1 7 

State  Superintendent,  section  6 8 

supervising  principal,  sections  92  and  93 41 

teachers,  sections  70,  93  and  100,  and  rules  1  and  3.  .29,  41,  43,  125 

teachers'  retirement  fund,  section  217.  . .  . .- 91 

truant  officers,  sections  150  and  151 62 

trustees  industrial  school,  sections  4  to  7 110 

(191) 


192  INDEX. 

Pages. 

Apportionment,  balances,  section  178 74 

contagious  diseases  in  cases  of,  section  177,  division  II. ...     74 

evening  schools,  sections  142  and  177 60,  72 

reserve  fund,  section  174 71 

school  moneys  by  County  Superintendent,  sections  133,  142, 

177  and  178 56,  60,  72,  74 

school  moneys  by  State  Superintendent,  section  17 12 

State  school  tax,  sections  172  and  177 68,  72 

supervising  principal,  section  177,  division  1 72 

union-graded  schools,  section  153 56 

Appropriations,  city,  sections  75  to  78 31 

colored  industrial  school,  section  207 88 

industrial  schools,  section  1 109 

institutes,  section  236 104 

libraries,  school,  section  212 90 

teachers',  section  215 91 

manual  training,  sections  177  and  209 72,  89 

penalty  for  exceeding,  section  31 116 

State  fund,  sections  172  and  243 68,  106 

State  school  fund,  sections  165  and  171 66,  68 

surplus  revenue,  section  235 104 

withheld,  sections  14,  41  and  120 10,  22,  50 

Arbor  Day,  section  239 105 

Assessment,  executions,  to  satisfy,  section  241 105 

school  tax,  cities,  sections  77  and  78 31,  32 

townships,  sections  132,  division  III.,  179,  191  and 

241 56,  75,  83,  105 

State  school  tax,  section  172 68 

Assessor,  apportion  State  school  tax,  section  172 68 

district  tax,  to  assess,  sections  132,  division  III.,  and  179 56,  75 

executions,  to  assess  for,  section  241 105 

State  school  tax,  to  assess,  section  172 68- 

Assistant  City  Superintendents,  appointment  of,  section  67 29 

qualifications  of,  section  68 29 

Assistant  State  Superintendent,  affidavits,  may  take,  section  21 13 

appointment  of,  section  7 9 

duties  of,  section  7 9 

•   expenses  of,  section  3,  division  IV 8 

salary  of,  sections  7  and  8 9 

Attendance,  apportionment  for,  section  177,  division  II.,  and  rules  58  to 

61 74,  138 

Attorney-General,   bonds,   to   approve   proceedings   for,    sections  136   and 

190 57,  83 

trustees  of  school  fund,  member  of,  section  161 66 

B. 

Balances,  apportionment  of,  sections  34  and  178 18,  74 

custodian  to  pay,  to  successor,  section  181 78 

report  of,  section  178 74 

Ballot,  appropriations  at  district  meetings  voted  by,  sections  88  and  180.  .38,  77 

boards  of  education,  members  elected  by,  section  87 37 

bonds,  voted  by,  section  180 77 


INDEX.  193 

Pages. 

Bills,  payment  of,  sections  02,  94  and  95 27,  41,  42 

Blanks  for  school  officers,  State  Superintendent  to  furnish,  section  19 12 

Boards  of  education  (see  Cities  and  Townships). 

Board  of  school  estimate,  organization  of,  section  75 31 

powers  of,  sections  75  to  78 31 

secretary  of,  section  75 31 

Bond,  business  manager  to  give,  section  72 .  30 

custodian  of  school  moneys  to  give,  sections  131,  182  and  183.  .55,  79,  80 

Secretary  Board  of  Education,  section  58 27 

Bonds,  approval  of  proceedings  by  Attorney-General,  section  190 83 

ballot,  vote  to  be  by,  sections  88  and  180 38,  77 

ballots,  authorizing,  filed  with  County  Superintendent,  section  180.  .  77 

canceled,  to  be  filed  with  State  Superintendent,  section  192 84 

cities  may  issue,  section  78 32 

coupons,  must  have,  section  188 81 

interest  on,  section  188 81 

issue,  how  ordered,  section  188 81 

new  district  liable  for,  sections  38  to  40 21 

proceedings,  copy  to  be  filed  with  State  Superintendent,  section  190,  83 

to  be  approved  by  Attorney-General,  section  190 83 

registry  of,  section  188 81 

renewal  of,  section  189 82 

report  of,  section  193 84 

sale  of,  section  188 81 

security  for,  section  190 83 

tax  for,  section  191 83 

union-graded  schools,  section  130  to  138 57 

Bordentown  School  (see  Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School  for  Colored 

Youth). 
Boroughs  (see  Townships). 

Bribery,  penalty  for,  sections  28  and  30 115,  116 

Buildings,  approval  of  plans  for,  sections  122  and  123 51 

bids  for,  how  and  when  opened,  section  33 117 

bonds  for,  cities,  section  78 32 

townships,  sections  88,  180,  and  article  XX.  ..38,  77,  81 

business  manager  to  supervise,  sections  73  and  74 30 

ceilings,  construction  of,  section  125,  division  VIII 52 

height  of,  section  125,  division  III 52 

condemnation  of,  section  120 50 

contracts  for,  sections  55  and  56 26 

damage  to,  sections  114  and  7 48,  115 

doors  to  open  outwardly,  section  124 52 

floor  space  in,  section  125,  division  II 52. 

insurance  on,  section  91,  division  VI 39 

janitors,  appointment  of,  section  91,  division  II 39 

light  in,  section  125,  division  1 52 

outhouses,  section  121 50 

penalty  for  failure  to  provide,  section  120 50» 

plans,  approval  of,  sections  122  and  123 51 

State  Superintendent  to  provide,  section  122 51 

staircases,  construction  of,  section  125,  divisions  IV.  and  VII ...  52 

suitable,  must  be  provided,  section  120 50 

13 


194  INDEX. 

Pages. 

Buildings,  supervision  of,  section  74 30 

title  to,  sections  38,  51  and  52 21,  25 

union-graded  schools,  sections  132,  division  III.,  and  136  to  138, 

56,  57 

use  of,  for  other  purposes,  section  91,  division  XI 41 

ventilation  of,  sections  123  and  125,  division  II 51,  52 

Business  manager,  appointment  of,  sections  53  and  72 '. 25,  30 

bond  of,  section  72 30 

buildings,  to  supervise,  sections  73  and  74 30 

duties  of,  sections  73  and  74 30 

salary  of,  sections  53  and  72 25,  30 

term  of  office,  section  53 25 

C. 

Certificates,  commercial,  rules  12,  22  and  35 126,  129,  133 

boards  of  examiners  (see  City,  County  and  State  Boards  of 
Examiners). 

City  Superintendents  to  hold,  section  68 29 

college  diploma  accepted  in  lieu  of  examination,  rule  11 126 

contract  not  valid  unless  teacher  holds,  section  iTJO  and  rule  1, 

43,  125 
county,  requirements  for,  section  238,  and  rules  5  to  7,  9,  11, 

12  and  23  to  36 105,  126,  130 

County  Superintendent  to  hold,  section  23 13 

district,  requirements  for,  section  238,  and  rules  5  to  7,  9,  11, 

12  and  37  to  41 105,  126,  134 

drawing,  rules  12,  22  and  35 126,  129,  133 

indorsement  of,  rule  14 127 

kindergarten,  section  140,  and  rules  12,  22  and  35.. 59,  126,  129,  133 

languages,  rules  12,  22  and  35 126,  129,  133 

manual  training,  rules  12,  22  and  35 126,  129,  133 

music,  rules  12,  22  and  35 126,  129,  133 

normal  graduates,  rules  20  and  21 129 

school  diploma  indorsed,  rule  14 127 

percentage  required,  rules  6,  7  and  33 126,  132 

physical  training,  rules  12,  22  and  35 126,  129,  133 

professional,  rules  29,  34  and  36 131,  133 

provisional,  rule  4 125 

report  of,  rule  10 126 

revocation  of,  section  146,  and  rules  8  and  9 61,  126 

rules  for,  section  3,  division  VI.,  and  rules  1  to  41 8,  125 

State,  requirements  for,  sections  30  and  238,  and  rules  5  to  7, 

9,  and  11  to  23 15,  105,  126 

suspension  of,  section  102 ". 45 

teachers  must  hold,  sections  107  and  140,  and  rule  1.  .  .46,  59,  125 

Childrens'  Guardians,  State  Board  of 118 

Cities  (see,  also,  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  Condemnation  of  Land 
and  Union-Graded  Schools). 

advertisement  for  supplies,  section  55 26 

appropriations,  sections  75  to  78,  177  and  31 31,  72,  116 

withheld,  sections  14  and  41 10,  22 

assistant  superintendents,  appointment  of,  sections  67  and  68 29 


INDEX.  195 

Pages. 

Cities  (see,  also,  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  Condemnation  of  Land 
and  Union-Graded  Schools). 

auditor,  section  62 27 

balances,  apportionment  of,  section  178 74 

bills,  how  paid,  sections  03  and  64 27,  28 

board  of  school  estimate,  appointment  of,  section  75 31 

powers  of,  sections  76  to  78 31 

secretary  of,  section  75 31 

boards  of  education,  age  of  members  of,  section  44 24 

appointment  of,  sections  42  and  80 23,  34 

by-laws  of,  section  54 26 

compensation  not  allowed,  section  47 24 

contracts,   not  to  be  interested  in,   sections  24 

and  32 44,  117 

teachers,  sections  100  and  101,   and 

rule  3 43,  44,  125 

incorporation  of,  section  48 24 

oath  of  office,  section  45 24 

organization  of,  section  49 25 

penalty  for  violation  of  law,  sections  14,  16  and 

46 10,  11,  24 

powers  of,  sections  49  to  80,  100  and  101.  .25,  43,  44 

qualifications  of,  sections  44  and  45 24 

removal  of  member  of,  sections  16,  46  and  146, 

11,  24,  61 

seal  of,  section  48 24 

suspension  of  member  of,  section  16 11 

term  of  office,  sections  42  and  43 23 

vacancy,  how  filled,  sections  42,  43  and  46..  .23,  24 

bond  of  business  manager,  section  72 30 

secretary,  section  58 27 

bonds  for  school-houses,  section  78 32 

buildings,  condemnation  of,  section  120 50 

business  manager,  appointment  of,  sections  53  and  72 25,  30 

bond  of,  section  72 30 

duties  of,  sections  72  to  74 30 

salary  of,  sections  53  and  72 25,  30 

term  of  office  of,  section  53 25 

certificates,  section  32,  and  rules  37  to  41 17,  134 

clerks,  how  appointed,  sections  59,  69  and  73 27,  29,  30 

colored  children  not  to  be  excluded  from,  schools,  section  119 50 

condemn  land,  section  50 25 

contagious  diseases,  persons  exposed  to,  excluded  from  schools,  sec- 
tion 115 48 

schools  closed  in  cases  of,  section  117 49 

contracts,  advertisement  for,  sections  55  and  56 26 

how  awarded,  section  33 117 

penalty  for  being  interested  in,  sections  29  and  32 116,  117 

teachers,  sections  100  and  101,  and  rule  3 43,  44,  125 

corporal  punishment  prohibited,  section  106 46 

corporate  name,  section  48 24 

course  of  study,  sections  70  and  237 29,  104 

custodian  of  school  moneys,  article  XIX 78 


196  INDEX. 

Pages. 

Cities  (see,  also,  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  Condemnation  of  Laud 
and  Union-Graded  Schools). 

damage  to  school  property,  who  liable  for,  section  7 115 

flags  for  school-houses,  section  234 104 

holidays,  section  104 • 46 

institutes,  teachers  must  attend,  rule  54 137 

kindergartens,  may  establish,  section  139 59 

lectures,  board  of  education  may  provide Ill 

libraries,  article  XXV.,  and  rule  62 , 90,  139 

manual  training,  article  XXIV 89 

medical  inspector,  may  appoint,  section  233 103 

normal  school,  approval  of  course  of  study,  rules  40  and  41 134 

outhouses,  tax  for,  section  121 51 

penalty  for  violation  of  law,  section  14 10 

plans  for  school-houses,  sections  122  and  123 .'  . .  .     51 

property,  title  to,  sections  38,  51  and  52 21,  25 

pupils,  admission  of,  section  118 50 

ages  of,  section  110 47 

excluded  from  school,  sections  115  and  116 48,  49 

expulsion  of,  section  114 48 

suspension  of,  sections  105  and  114 46,  48 

transportation,  section  111 47 

tuition  fees  for,  sections  61,  110  and  113 27,  47,  48 

vaccination  of,  sections  115  and  116 48,  49 

religious  services  in  schools,  section  108 46 

report,  sections  28,  57,  61,  65  and  177 15,  26,  27,  28,  72 

school  term,  section  41 22 

year,  section  242 106 

secretary,  appointment  of,  sections  53  and  58 25,  27 

bond  of,  section  58 27 

clerks  may  appoint,  section  59 27 

contracts  with  teachers,  to  file  with  City  Superintendent, 

section  100 43 

duties  of,  sections  42,  59  to  62,  75  and  181,  and  rule  57.  . 

23,  27,  31,  78,  137 

report  of,  sections  61  and  65 27,  28 

removal  of,  section  16 11 

salary  of,  sections  53  and  58 25,  27 

term  of  office  of,  section  53 .     25 

tuition  fees,  shall  collect,  section  61 27 

sinking  fund,  custodian  of,  section  185 81 

superintendent,  appointment  of,  sections  53  and  66 25,  29 

assistant  may  nominate,  section  67 29 

clerks  may  appoint,  section  69 29 

duties  of,  sections  67  to  71 29 

qualifications  of,  section  68 29 

removal  of,  section  66 29 

report  of,  sections  28,  69  and  177 15,  29,  72 

salary  of,  sections  53  and  66 25,  29 

teachers  may  suspend,  section  71 30 

teacher's  report  to  certify,  section  103 45 

term  of  office  of,  section  53 25 

supplies,  advertisement  for,  sections  55  and  33 26,  117 


INDEX.  197 

Pages. 

Cities  (see  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  Condemnation  of  Land  and 
Union-Graded  Schools). 

teachers,  appointment  of,  sections  70  and  100 29,  43 

contracts,  sections  100  and  104,  and  rule  3 43,  46,  125 

excluded  from  school,  sections  115  and  116 48,  49 

removal  of,  sections  70  and  101 29,  44 

report  of,  section  103 45 

rules  for  employment  of,  section  100,  and  rule  3 43,  125 

salaries  of,   sections  100,   101,   103,   104,   107,   and  article 

XXVIII 43,  45,  46,  98 

suspension  of,  section  71 30 

term,  school,  section  41 22 

text-books,  selection  of,  sections  70,  144  and  145 29,  60 

title  to  school  property,  sections  51,  52  and  247 25,  107 

transfer  of  pupils,  section  112 47 

transportation  of  pupils,  section  111 47 

truant  officers  to  appoint,  section  150 62 

tuition  fees,  sections  61,  110  and  113 ! 27,  47,  48 

vaccination  of  pupils,  sections  115  and  116 48,  49 

warrants,  how  issued,  sections  63  and  64 ! 27,  28 

City  Boards  of  Examiners,  members  of,  sections  9  and  32,   and  rules  37 

to  41 : 9,  17,  134 

rules  for,  section  32 17 

(see,  also,  Certificates). 
City  Superintendent,  agricultural  college,  hold  examinations  for,  section  3.  .   113 

appointment  of,  sections  53  and  66 25,  29 

assistant,  may  nominate,  section  67 29 

duties  of,  sections  67  to  71 29 

qualifications  of,  section  68 : 29 

removal  of,  section  66 29 

report  of,  sections  28  and  69 25,  29 

salary  of,  sections  53  and  66 25,  29 

teachers,  may  suspend,  section  71 30 

teachers'  report  to  certify,  section  103 45 

term  of  office  of,  section  53 25 

College  diplomas  accepted  in  lieu  of  examination,  rule  11 126 

Colored  children  not  to  be  excluded  from  schools,  section  119 50 

Colored  industrial  school  (see  Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School  for 

Colored  Youth). 
Comptroller  (see  State  Comptroller). 

Compulsory  attendance,  ages  of  pupils,  sections  147,  149  and  152 61,  62 

parental  schools,  sections  156  to  160 65 

penalty  for  failure  to  attend,  sections  148,  153  and 

154    61,  63 

pupils,  ages  of,  sections  147,  149  and  152 61,  62 

truant  officer,  sections  150,  151,  153  to  155 62,  63 

truants,  definition  of,  section  152 62 

Condemnation  of  school-houses,  section  120 50 

land,  sections  50,  91,  division  V.,  and  132,  division  II., 

25,  39,  55 

Consolidation  of  school  districts,  sections  35  to  38 19 

Constitution,  extracts  from 5 


198  INDEX. 

Pages. 
Contagious  diseases,  persons  exposed  to,  excluded  from  schools,  section  115,     48 

schools  closed  in  cases  of,  section  117 49 

Contracts,  cities,  sections  55  and  56 26 

deaf,  school  for,  section  202 86 

teachers,  sections  100,  101  and  104,  and  rule  3 43,  44,  46,  125 

Corporal  punishment  prohibited,  section  106 46 

County  boards  of  examiners  (see,  also,  Certificates). 

appointment  of,  section  31 16 

compensation  of,  section  31 16 

rules  for,  section  31,  and  rule  4 16,  125 

State  Superintendent  member  of,  section  9.  .       9 

County  Collector,  balances  paid  to,  section  178 74 

County  Superintendent's  expenses,  to  pay,  section  25.  ..      14 

State  school  tax,  payment  by,  section  173 70 

to,  sections  174  and  176 71 

County  Superintendent,  affidavit,  may  take,  section  26,  division  1 14 

agent  for  books,  not  to  act  as,  section  146,  and  rule 

46 61,  135 

Agricultural   College,   hold  examinations  for,   sec- 
tions 1,  2  and  3 112 

appoint  district  clerk  and  president,  section  90.  ...     38 
members  boards  of  education,  section  26, 

division    IV 15 

appointment  of,  sections  3,  division  II.,  12  and  23, 

8,  10,  13 
apportion  school  moneys,  sections  34,  133,  173,  177 

and  178 18,  56,  70,  72,  74 

balances,  to  apportion,  section  34 18 

condemn  school  buildings,  section  120 50 

course  of  study  to  prescribe,  section  91,   division 

VII.,  and  rules  48  and  50 40,  136 

consoldation  of  districts,  sections  35  to  38 19 

District  Clerk,  to  appoint,  section  90 38 

examination  of,  rule  51 136 

examiners,  to  appoint,  section  31 16 

expenses  of,  section  25 14 

orders  for  school  moneys,  to  issue,  sections  26,  divi- 
sion II.,  and  173 14,  70 

penalty  for  failure  to  perform  duties,  section  13. ..     10 
powers  of,  sections  14,  26,  31,  35,  97,  112,  120,  133, 

135,  173,  176  and  232 

10,  14,  16,  19,  43,  47,  50,  56,  57,  70,  71,  103 
president  board  of  education,  to  appoint,  section  90,     38 

qualifications  of,  section  23 

removal  of,  sections  3,  division  II.,  and  146 8,  61 

reports  of,  sections  27  and  103 15,  45 

to,  sections  28,  91,  division  XIII.,  and  96, 

15,  41,  42 

salary  of,  sections  13,  24  and  165 10,  13,  66 

teachers'  institutes,  certificates  of  attendance,  rule 

56 137 

libraries,  sections  215  and  216,  and  rule 
49  91,  136 


INDEX.  199 

Pages. 

County  Superintendent,  term  of  office  of,  sections  12  and  23 10,  13 

transfer  of  pupils,  sections  110  to  113 47 

union-graded  schools,  sections  126  and  128 53,  54 

vacancy,  how  filled,  section  12 10 

visit  schools,  rule  42 135 

Course  of  study,  adoption  of,  sections  70,  91,  division  VII.,  93,  and  rule  48, 

29,  40,  41,  136 

Custodian  of  school  moneys,  appointment  of,  sections  131,  182  and  183. .  .55,  78 
balances  to  pay  County  Collector,  section  173,     74 
report,  to  County  Superintendent,  sec- 
tion 34 18 

bonds  of,  sections  182  and  183 78 

duties  of,  sections  14,  16,  113,  131,  181  to  187, 

10,  11,  48,  55,  78 

penalty  for  failure  to  report,  section  187 81 

reports  of,  sections  28  and  187 15,  81 

salary  of,  sections  182  and  183 78 

union-graded  schools,  section  131 55 

D. 

Deaf,  school  for  (see  New  Jersey  School  for  the  Deaf). 

Diplomas,  college,  accepted  in  lieu  of  examination,  rule  11 126 

normal  school,  section  195 84 

public  school  graduates,  rule  50 •. 136 

teachers,  rule  50 136 

District  Clerk,  accounts,  to  keep,  section  96 42 

affidavit,  may  take,  section  95 42 

appointment  of,  section  90 38 

ballots,  deposited  with  County  Superintendent,  section  180,  77 

bonds,  registry  of,  to  keep,  section  188 81 

certificate  of  tax,  to  issue,  section  179 75 

minutes,  to  keep,  section  96 42 

notices  of  meeting  of  board  of  education,  to  issue,  section  96,  42 
legal  voters,  to  post,  sections  82,  84,  96 

and  126 35,  36,  42,  53 

orders,  to  issue,  sections  96,  103  and  181,  and  rule  57 

42,  45,  78,  137 

penalty  for  failure  to  post  notices,  section  84 36 

register,  to  certify,  section  103 45 

removal  of,  section  16 11 

report  of,  sections  28,  91,  division  XIII.,  96,  177  and  193.  . 

15,  41,  42,  72,  84 

salary  of,  section  90 38 

teacher's  contract,  to  file  with  County  Superintendent,  sec- 
tion 100,  and  rule  2 43,  125 

teachers'  retirement  fund,  payments  to,   section  223,  divi- 
sion 1 95 

supplies,  may  purchase,  section  95 42 

vacancy,  how  filled,  section  90 38 

vaccination  of  pupils,  to  give  permit  for,  section  116 49 

District  school  tax,  amount  of,  section  179 75 

assessment  of,  section  179 75 


200  INDEX. 

Pages. 

District  school  tax,  ballot,  vote  to  be  by,  sections  87,  88  and  180 37,  77 

ballots  filed  with  District  Clerk,  section  88 38 

County  Superintendent,  section  180.  ..  77 

bonds  for  payment  of,  sections  138  and  191 58,  83 

borrow  in  anticipation  of,  section  91,  division  XIV.  ...  41 

certificate  of,  section  179 75 

collection  of,  section  179 75 

current  expenses,  definition  of,  section  179 75 

deficiency,  how  provided  for,  section  179 75 

evening  schools,  section  143 60 

fees  for  collection  of,  section  179 75 

kindergarten,  section  141 59 

legal  expenses,  section  99 43 

manual  training,  sections  179  and  209 75,  89 

outhouses,  how  ordered,  section  121 51 

school  libraries,  sections  179  and  212 75,  90 

tellers,  appointment  of,  section  180 77 

union-graded   schools,    sections   132.    division   III.,   and 
138 56,  58 

Districts  (see  School  Districts). 

District  Superintendents  (see  City  Superintendents). 

E. 

Election,  adoption  of  article  VI.,  section  249 108 

boards  of  education,  cities,  sections  43,  80  and  246 23,  34,  106 

townships,  sections  81  to  87 35 

union-graded  schools,  section  127 54 

Estimate  (see  Boards  of  School  Estimate). 

Evening  schools,  apportionment  for,  section  177 72 

expenses  of,  section  143 60 

pupils,  ages  of,  section  142 60 

term,  length  of,  section  142 60 

Examinations,  Agricultural  College,  sections  1,  2  and  3 112 

teachers'  certificates  (see  Certificates). 

Executions  against  school  districts,  section  241 105 

Expenses,  county  boards  of  examiners,  section  31 16 

County  Superintendents,  section  25 14 

institutes,  section  236 104 

State  Board  of  Education,  section  4 8 

Examiners,  section  30 15 

Superintendent,  section  3,  division  IV 8 

Expulsion  of  pupils,  sections  91,  division  VIII.,  and  114 40,  48 

F. 

Factories,  ages  of  children  in,  section  149 62 

Parnum  Preparatory  School,  control  of,  section  2 7 

Flags  for  school-houses,  sections  179  and  234 75,  104 

Free  lectures,  advertisement  of,  section  3 112 

boards  of  education  may  provide,  section  1 Ill 

supplies  for,  section  2 1 

time  of  holding,  section  3 112 


INDEX.  201 


, 

Pages. 

Governor,  industrial  schools,  appoint  trustees  of,  sections  4  and  6.  ...  110,  111 

State  Board  of  Education,  appoint  members  of,  section  1  ......  7 

Superintendent  to  appoint,  section  6  ...................  8 

trustees  of  school  fund,  members  of,  section  1G1  ..............  60 

(Iratlod  schools  (see  Union-Graded  Schools). 

definition  of,  rule  28  ....................  ..............  131 

reports  of,  section  103  ................................  45 

salaries  of  teachers  in,  article  XXVIII  ..................  98 

Grammar  schools,  definition  of,  rule  28  ................................  131 

H. 

High  schools,  definition  of,  rule  28  ....................................  131 

Holidays,  exercises  in  schools  on,  section  240  ..........................  105 

school,  section  104  .........................................  46 


Incorporated  towns  (see  Townships). 

Indebtedness  of  school  districts,  sections  38  to  40,  and  article  XX 21,  81 

Industrial  school  for  colored  youth  (see  Manual  Training  and  Industrial 
School  for  Colored  Youth). 

Industrial  schools,  appropriations  for,  section  1 109 

incorporation  of,  section  7 Ill 

object  of,  section  2 110 

report  of,  section  4 110 

tax  for,  section  3 110 

trustees  of,  sections  4  to  7 110 

Institutes,  appropriations  for,  section  236 104 

County  Superintendents  to  assist  at,  rule  56 137 

expenses  of,  rule  55 137 

instructors  for,  rule  52 136 

rules  for,  section  3,  division  III.,  and  rules  52  to  56 8,  136 

schools  closed  during,  rule  53 137 

teachers  required  to  attend,  rule  54 137 

Insurance,  school  buildings,  section  91,  division  VI 39 

Interest,  bonds,  rate  of,  section  188 ' 81 

district  orders,  section  186 81 

surplus  revenue,  section  235 104 

J. 

Janitors,  appointment  of,  section  91,  division  II 39 

K. 

Kindergartens,  boards  of  education  may  establish,  section  139 59 

certificates  of  teachers,  section  140,  and  rules  12,  22,  35 

and  38 59,  126,  129,  133,  134 

expenses  of,  section  141 59 

pupils,  ages  of,  section  139 59 

traohors  in.   section   140 59 


202  INDEX. 


Laws,  State  Superintendent  to  have  printed,  section  19 12 

Lectures,  boards  of  education  may  provide Ill 

Legal  voters  at  school  meetings,  section  86 37 

Libraries  (see  School  Libraries,  Teachers'  Libraries). 

M. 

Manual  training  (see  also  Industrial  Schools). 

appropriations  for,  sections  177  and  209 72,  89 

course  of  study  in,  section  209 89- 

report  of,  section  211 90 

tax  for,  section  209 89 

trustees  of,  section  210 89- 

Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School  for  Colored  Youth,  appropriations 

for,  section 

207 88- 

control  of,  sec- 
tions 2  and 

205 7,  88- 

pupils  in,   sec- 
tion 206  ..  88- 
treasurer      of, 

section  208,  88 
Medical  inspectors,  appointment  of,  sections  132,  division  III.,  and  233.  .  56,  103 

duties  of,  sections  115,  116  and  233 48,  49,  103 

tax  for  expenses  of,  section  179 75 

Model  School,  section  199 85 

Month,  school,  length  of,  section  100 43 

N. 

Narcotics,  effects  of,  to  be  taught,  section  237 104 

New  Jersey  School  for  the  Deaf,  contract  for  supplies,  section  202 86 

control  of,  sections  2  and  201 7,  86 

corporate  name,  section  200 85 

expenses  of,  section  204 87 

object  of,  section  200 85- 

pupils  in,  sections  200  and  203 85,  86 

expenses  of,  section  204 87 

repairs  to,  section  202 

superintendent  of,  section  201 86 

teachers  in,  section  201 

treasurer  of,  section  204 87 

Normal  School  (see  State  Normal  School). 

Notices,  District  Clerk  to  post,  sections  82,  84,  96  and  126 35,  36,  42,  5 

O. 

Office,  State  Board  of  Education,  section  1 

Superintendent,   section  6 

Orders,  County  Superintendent's  salary  and  expenses,  sections  24  and  25.  .13,  1 

District  Olerk  to  issue,  sections  91  and  181,  and  rule  57 42,  78,  1 

interest  on,  section  186 °^ 


INDEX. 


203 


Pages. 

Orders,  reserve  fund,  section  174 71 

State  school  moneys,  sections  17  and  2(>,  division  II 12,  14 

tax,  sections  174  and  176 71 

withheld  in  certain  cases,  section  173 70 

teachers,  sections  103  and  223,  division  1 45,  95 

transfers,  section  111 47 

tuition  fees,  section  113 48 

Outhouses,  tax  for,  section  121 51 

P. 

Parental  schools  (see  Compulsory  Education). 

Patriotism  to  be  taught,  section  240 105 

Penalty,  board  of  education,  meetings,  failure  to  attend,  sections  46  and 

97 24,  43 

violation  of  law,  sections  14,  16  and  95.  .10,  11,  42 

buildings,  failure  to  provide,  section  120 50 

County  Superintendent,  violation  of  law,  sections  13,  146,  and  rule 

46 10,  61,  135 

custodian  of  school  moneys,  failure  to  report,  section  187 81 

damage  to  school  property,  sections  114  and  7 48,  115 

District  Clerk,  failure  to  post  notices,  84 36 

district,  violation  of  law,  sections  14  and  41 10,  22 

exceeding  appropriations,  section  31 116 

excluding  children  from  school,  section  119 50 

notices,  failure  to  post,  section  84 36 

State  school  tax,  failure  to  pay,  section  173 70 

misuse  of,  section  232 103 

text-books,  school  officer  or  teacher  interested  in  furnishing,  sec- 
tions 146  and  28  to  33 61,  115 

truancy,  sections  148,  153  to  160 61,  63 

Petition,  meeting  of  legal  voters  called  upon,  sections  35  and  91,  division 

X 19,  40 

Plans  for  school-houses,  approval  of,  sections  74,  122  and  123 30,  51 

furnished  by  State  Superintendent,  section  123 ....     51 

Primary  schools,  definition  of,  rule  28 131 

Private  schools,  reports  of,  section  18 12 

Provisional  certificates,  rule  4 125 

Pupils  (see  Compulsory  Attendance). 

admission  of,  section  118 50 

ages  of,  sections  110,  142  and  147 47,  60,  62 

apportionment  for  attendance  of,  rules  58  to  61 138 

books  for,  section  144 60 

colored  industrial  school,  section  206 88 

compulsory  attendance  of,  article  XV 61 

contagious  diseases,  may  be  excluded  from  school  if  exposed  to,  sec- 
tion 115 48 

corporal  punishment  prohibited,  section  106 46 

damage  to  school  property,  liable  for,  section  114 48 

deaf,  school  for,  section  203 86 

diplomas  for,  rule  50 136 

evening  schools,  section  142 60 

expulsion  of,  sections  91,  division  VIII.,  nnd  114 40,  48 

kindergartens,  section  139 59 


204  INDEX. 

Pages, 

Pupils,  normal  school,  section  198 85 

quarantined,  rule  61 138 

suspension  of,  sections  91,  division  V11L,  105  and  114 ,40,  46,  48 

transfer  of,  section  112 47 

transportation  of,  section  111 47 

truancy,  article  XV 61 

tuition  fees  of,  sections  110  and  113 47,  48 

vaccination  of,  sections  115  and  116 48,  49 

R. 

Register,  District  Clerk  to  certify,  section  103 45 

teacher  to  keep,  section  103,  and  rules  58  to  61 45,  138 

Religious  services  in  schools,  section  108 46 

Removal,  board  of  education,  member  of,  sections  16.  46.  !>7.  129  and  146, 

11,  24,  43,  54,  61 

Business  Manager,  section  72 30 

City  Superintendent,  sections  66  and  67 29 

County   Superintendent,   sections  3,   division   II.,   and  146,   and 

rule  46    8,  61,  135 

Report,  boards  of  education,  sections  57  and  91,  division  XIII 26,  41 

bonded  debt,  section  193 84 

City  Superintendent,  sections  28  and  69 15,  29 

County  Superintendent,  section  27 ' 15 

custodian  of  school  moneys,  sections  28  and  187 15,  81 

District  Clerk,  sections  28,  96  and  179 15,  42,  75 

district  tax,  section  179 75 

industrial  schools,   section  4 110 

institute  expenses,  section  236 104 

manual  training,   section  211 90 

private  schools,   section  18 12 

secretary  board  of  education,  sections  61  and  65 27,  28 

State  Board  of  Education,  section  5 8 

Superintendent,   section  20 12 

teachers  employed,  number  of,  section  177,  and  rule  2 72,  125 

retirement  fund,  section  218 92 

teachers,'  sections  70  and  103,  and  rule  57 29,  45,  137 

trustees  of  the  school  fund,  section  170 68 

Reserve  fund,  apportionment  of,  section  174 71 

orders  for,   section  174 71 

withheld  in  certain  cases,  section  173 70 

Retirement  fund  (see  Teachers'  Retirement  Fund). 

Rules  for  employment  of  teachers,  section  100 43 

prescribed  by  State  Board  of  Education,  section  3,  divisions  I.,  III. 

and  VI.  '. 8 


School  districts,  balances,  section  34 18 

borough  may  be  made  separate,  section  33 17 

boundaries  of,  sections  33  and  244 17,  106 

consolidation  of,  sections  35  to  38 19 

corporate  name  of,  sections  37,  48  and  89 21,  38 

debts  of,  sections  38  to  40 21 


INPKX.  205 


School  districts,  now.  how  constituU'd.  section-  ."».">,  o4  and  S;> 17,   18,  36 

property,  title  to,  sections  38,  51,  52,  division  VI.,  and  247, 

21,  25,  39,  107 

I  fund,  appropriations  from,  sections  165  and  171 66,  68 

investment  of.   sections  163  to  169 »;»; 

report  of,  sect  ion  170 68 

secretary  of,  section  1(>2 66 

treasurer  of,  section  170 68 

trustees  of,  section  161 66 

School-houses  (see  Buildings). 

School  libraries,  appropriation  for,  section  212 90 

committee  to  manage,  section  214 90 

consolidation  of,  section  214 90 

rules  for,  section  213,  and  rules  (52  and  03 90,  139 

tax  for,  sections  179  and  '2\'2 75}  90 

month,  section  100 43 

term,  day  schools,  section  41 22 

year,  section  242 106 

Secretary  boards  of  education,  appointment  of,  sections  53  and  58 25,  27 

bond  of,  section  58 27 

clerks,  may  appoint,  section  59 27 

duties  of,  sections  42,  59  to  62,  75  and  116.  . 

23,  27,  31,  49 

removal  of,  section  16 11 

report  of,  sections  61,  <->5  and  193 27,  28,  84 

salary  of,  sections  53  and  58 25,  27 

term  of  office  of,  section  53 25 

school  fund,  section  162 66 

State  Board. of  Education,  section  9 9 

teachers'  retirement  fund,  section  218 92 

union-graded  schools,  section  131 55 

Sinking  fund,  custodian  of,  section  185 81 

State  Board  of  Children's  Guardians 118 

State  Board  of  Education,  appeals  to,  sections  3,  division  V.,  10,  13  and  16, 

8,  9,  10,  11 

appointment  of,  section  1 7 

colored  industrial  school,  control  of,  sections  2 

and  205 7,  88 

contracts,  how  awarded,  section  33 117 

not  to  be  interested  in,  sections  28  and 

32   115,  117 

County  Superintendents,  to  appoint,  section  23.  .     13 
deaf,  school  for,  control  of,  section  2,  and  article 

XXII 7,  85 

examinations,  make  rules  for,  sections  30  to  32,     15 

expenses  of,  section  4 8 

of  County  Superintendents,  to  approve, 

section  25 14 

State  Superintendent,  to  approve,  sec- 
tion 3,  division  IV 8 

Farnum  Preparatory  School,  control  of,  section  2,       7 
manual  training,  approve  courses  of  study,  sec- 
tion 209 89 


206  INDEX. 

Pages. 

State  Board  of  Education,  model  school,  may  maintain,  section  199 85 

normal  school,  control  of,  section  2,  and  article 

XXI ..7,84 

office  of,   section  1 7 

plans  for  school-houses,  to  approve,  sections  122 

and  123 51 

powers  of,  section  3 7 

report  of,   section  5 8 

reserve  fund,  to  apportion,  section  174 71 

rules,  to  prescribe,  sections  3,  divisions  I.  and 

VI.,   and  213 7,  90 

Secretary  of,   section  9 9 

State  appropriations,  section  243 106 

State  Board  of  Examiners,  appoint  member  of, 

section  30 15 

teachers'  retirement  fund,  appoint  members  of, 

section  217 91 

term  of  office  of,  section  1 7 

State  Board  of  Examiners  (see,  also,  certificates). 

appointment  of,   section  30 15 

Principal  State  Normal  School,  member  of,  sec- 
tion 30 15 

rules  for,  section  30,  and  rules  4  and  13  to  22, 

15,  125,  127 
State  Superintendent,  member  of,  sections  9  and 

30    9,  15 

State  Comptroller,  apportion  State  school  tax,  section  172 68 

County  Superintendents,  to  pay,  section  24 13 

industrial  school  appropriations  to  pay,  section  1 109 

institute  expenses  to  pay,  section-  230 104 

library  appropriations  to  pay,  sections  212  and  215.  .  90,  91 

manual  training  appropriations  to  pay,  section  209 89 

normal  school  repairs  to  pay,  section  198 85 

State  Board  of  Education  expenses  to  pay,  section  4.  . .       8 
Superintendent,  to  pay,  section  3,  division  IV ....       8 

trustees  of  school  fund,  member  of,  section  161 66 

State  Normal  School,  certificates  to  graduates,  rules  20  and  21 129 

control  of,  sections  2  and  195 7,  84 

course  of  study  in,  section  195 84 

diplomas  to  graduates,  section  195 84 

insurance  on,  section  197 85 

model  school  may  be  maintained,  section  199 85 

object  of,  section  194 84 

principal,  appointment  of,  section  195 84 

member  of  State  Board  of  Examiners,  sec- 
tion 31 16 

pupils,  number  of,  section  198 85 

pledge  of,  section  198 85 

repairs  to,  section  197 85 

rules  for,  section  195 84 

State  Board  of  Education  to  have  control  of,  sections 

2  and  195 3,  84 

teachers  in,  section  195 84 

treasurer  of,  section  190 85 


INDEX.  207 

Pages. 
State  School  Fund  (see  School  Fund). 

State  School  Tax,  abstract  of,  given  to  assessors,  section  172 68 

amount  of,  section  172 • 68 

apportionment  for  collection,  section  172 68 

of  balances,  section  178 74 

to  districts,  section  177 72 

reserve  fund,  section  174 71 

balances,  apportionment  of,  section  178 74 

borrow  in  anticipation  of,  section  91,  division  XIV 41 

money  to  pay,  section  173 70 

collection  of,  section  173 70 

deficiency,  how  provided  for,  section  173 70 

orders  withheld  in  certain  cases,  section  173 70 

payments  to  districts,  sections  176  and  177 71,  72 

payment  to  State,  section  173 70 

penalty  for  misuse  of,  section  232 103 

reserve  fund,  sections  173  and  174 70,  71 

supervising  principal,  apportionment  for,  section  177,  di- 
vision 1 73 

teachers,  apportionment  for,  section  177,  division  1 73 

transportation,  apportionment  for,  section  177,  division  I.,     73 

withheld  in  certain  cases,  section  14 10 

State  Superintendent,  affidavits,  may  take,  section  21 13 

appeals  from  decisions  of,  sections  3,  division  V.,  10, 

13  and  16 8,  9,  10,  11 

to,  sections  10  and  11 9,  10 

appointment  of,  section  6 8 

apportion  school  moneys,  section  17 12 

arbor  day,  prepare  circulars  for,  section  239 105 

assistant  superintendent,  may  appoint,  section  7 ....       9 
blanks  for  school  officers,  to  furnish,  sections  19  and 

100    12,  43 

clerks,  may  appoint,  section  8 9 

condemn  school-houses,  section  120 50 

County  Superintendents,  to  appoint,  section  12 10 

salary,  may  withhold,  sec- 
tion 13 10 

decisions,  to  keep  copy  of,  section  11 10 

duties  of,  sections  9  to  22 9 

examiners,  member  of  boards  of,  sections  9  and  30.  .9,  15 

expenses  of,  section  3,  division  IV 8 

institutes,  to  hold,  section  236,  and  rule  52 104,  136 

new  district,  may  establish,  section  33 17 

office  of,  section  6 8 

penalty  for  violation  of  law,  may  remit,  section  232.  .   103 

plans  for  school-houses,  to  furnish,  section  122 51 

private  schools,  reports  of,  section  18 12 

report  of,  section  20 12 

salary  of,  section  6 8 

seal  of,  section  11 10 

Secretary  State  Board  of  Education,  section  9 9 

suspend  school  officer,  section  16 11 

1 1  a chers'  certificate,  may  suspend,  section  102 45 


208  INDEX. 

Pages. 

State  Superintendent,  teachers'  retirement  fund,  trustee  of,  section  217.  ...  91 

salary,  may  withhold,  section  15 11 

•            term  of  office,  section  6 8 

Superintendents  (see,  also,  City  Superintendents,  County  Superintendents, 
State  Superintendent). 

Supervising  principal,  appointment  of,  sections  92  and  93 41 

apportionment  for,  section  177,  division  1 73 

qualifications  of,  section  92 41 

salary  of,  section  92 41 

union-graded  schools,  section  132,  division  V 56 

Surplus  revenue,  appropriated  to  schools,  section  235 184 

Suspension,  boards  of  education,  member  or  officer  of,  section  16 11 

pupils,  sections  91,  division  VIII.,  105  and  114 40,  46,  48 

teachers,  section  71 3ft 

T. 

Tax  (see  District  School  Tax,  State  School  Tax). 

Teachers,  agent,  not  to  act  as,  section  146 61 

appointment  of ,  sections  70,  91,  division  II.,  93  and  100.  .29,  39,  41,  4£ 

apportionment  for,  section  177,  division  1 73 

certificates,  must  hold,  sections  100,  107  and  140 43,  46,  59 

exhibited  to  County  Superintendent,  rule  1 125 

revocation  of,  section  146 61 

suspension  of,  section  102 45 

contagious  diseases,  excluded  from  school  if  exposed  to,  section 

115 48 

contracts,  sections  100,  101  and  104,  and  rules  1  and  2.  .43,  44,  46,  125 

corporal  punishment  prohibited,  section  106 46 

course  of  pedagogical  reading,  rule  50 136 

dismissal  of,  section  101 44 

employment  of,  rule  3 125 

examinations  (see  Certificates). 

holidays,  not  required  to  teach  on,  section  '104 46 

institutes,  must  attend,  rule  54 137 

jury,  not  required  to  serve  on,  section  109 47 

penalty  for  violation  of  law,  section  15 11 

pupils,  may  suspend,  sections  105  and  114 46,  48 

register,  shall  keep,  section  103,  and  rules  57  to  61 45,  137 

religious  exercises  in  schools,  section  108 46 

removal  of,  section  70 29 

retirement  fund,  article  XXVII 91 

report  of,  section  103 45 

revocation  of,  certificate,  section  146,  and  rules  8  and  9 61,  126 

rules  for  employment  of,  sections  54  and  100,  and  rule  3 .  .'26,  43,  125 

salaries  of,  in  graded  schools,  article  XXVIII 98 

sections  100,  101,  103,  104  and  107,  and  rule  57 

43,  44,  45,  46,  137 

withheld  in  certain  cases,  section  15 11 

supervising  principal,  sections  92,  93  and  132,  division  V 41,  56 

suspend  pupils,  section  105 46 

suspension  of,  section  71 30 

Teachers'  institutes  (see  Institutes). 


INDEX.  209 

Pages. 

Teachers'  libraries,  appropriations  for,  section  215 91 

control  of,  section  216 91 

course  of  reading,  rule  50 136 

rules  for,  section  216,  and  rule  50 91,  136 

retirement  fund,  annuities,  how  granted,  sections  220  and  221.  .93,  94 

amount  of,  section  220 93 

application  for  membership  in,  section  225.  ...     96 

assets  of,  section  223 94 

bequests  to,  section  218 92 

expenses  of,  section  218 92 

fiscal  year  of,  section  218 92 

investment  of,  section  218 92 

members  of,  sections  222  and  225  to  228 94,  96 

president  of,  section  218 92 

report  of,  section  218 92 

secretary  of,  sections  218  and  224,  division  II., 

92,  96 

treasurer  of,  section  219 93 

trustees  of,  section  217 91 

powers  of,  section  224 96 

withdrawal  from,  section  222 94 

Tellers  at  school  meetings,  sections  35,  87,  88,  126  and  180.  .19,  37,  38,  53,  77 

Term  of  office,  County  Superintendent,  section  23 13 

Business  Manager,  section  53 25 

City  Board  of  Education,  sections  42  and  43 23 

Superintendents,   section  53 25 

State  Board  of  Education,  section  1 7 

Superintendent,  section  6 8 

township  board  of  education,  sections  81,  82  and  83 35,  36 

school,  length  of,  section  41 22 

Text-books,  boards  of  education  to  provide,  section  144 60 

penalty  for  school  officer  or  teacher  to  be  interested  in  furnish- 
ing, sections  146,  29  and  32. .. 61,  116,  117 

purchase  of,  sections  91,  divisions  VII.  and  IX.,  and  93 40,  41 

rules  for,  section  145 60 

selection  of,  sections  70,  91,  division  VII.,  and  93 29,  40,  41 

Townships  (see  also  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  District  Tax  and 
Union-Graded  Schools). 

accounts,  section  96 42 

affidavits  to  bills,  section  95 42 

annual  meeting,  sections  84  and  96 36,  42 

appropriations,  penalty  for  exceeding,  section  31 116 

article  VI.  may  adopt,  section  249 108 

balances,  apportionment  of,  section  178 74 

ballot,  elections  to  be  by,  sections  87,  88  and  180 37,  38,  77 

ballot-boxes  to  be  provided,  section  88 38 

bills,  payment  of,  sections  94  and  95 41,  42 

board  of  education,  accounts  of,  section  96 42 

affidavit  to  bills  required,  section  95 42 

age  of  members  of,  section  85 36 

appointment   of,    sections   26,    division   IV., 

and  91,  division  I. 15,  39 

14 


210  INDEX. 

Pages. 
Townships  (see  also  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  District  Tax  and 

Union-Graded  Schools), 
board  of  education,  borrow  money,  section  91,  divisions  IV.  and 

XIV 39,  41 

bribery,  penalty  for,  sections  28  and  30.  .116,  117 

condemn  land,  section  91,  division  V 39 

consolidated  districts,  sections  35  and  38.  ..  19 
contagious    diseases,    may   close   schools   in 

cases  of.  section  117 49 

contracts,  not  to  be  interested  in,  sections 

85,   29   and  32 36,  116,  117 

corporate  name,  section  89 38 

counsel,  may  employ,  section  99 43 

county  meetings  of,  section  98 43 

course  of  study,  may  adopt,  sections  91,  divi- 
sion VII.,  and  93,  and  rule  48.  .  .40,  41,  136 
custodian,  may  appoint  in  certain  cases,  sec- 
tion 183 80 

debts  of,  sections  38  to  40 21 

election  of,  sections  36,  81  to  87 20,  35 

incorporation  of,  section  89 38 

janitors,  may  appoint,  section  91,  division  II.,  39 

medical  inspectors,  section  233 103 

meetings  of,  sections  94  and  98 41,  43 

minutes  of,  section  96 42 

notices  of  meetings  of,  section  96 42 

number  of  members  of,  sections  81  and  82.  .  35 

oath  of  office  of,  section  90 * 38 

organization  of,  section  90 38 

penalty  for  failure  to  attend  meetings,  sec- 
tion 97 43 

penalty  for  violation  of  law,  sections  14  and 

95 10,  42 

petition  to  call  meeting  of  legal  voters  in, 

section  91,  division  X 40 

powers  of,  section  91 39 

president  of,  section  90 38 

pupils,  may  suspend  or  expel,  sections  91, 

division  VIII.,  and  114 40,  48 

qualifications  of,  section  85 36 

removal  of  member  of,  sections  16,  97  and 

146    11,  43,  61 

report  of,   sections  91,   division   XIII.,   and 

177    41,  72 

seal  of,  section  91,  division  XII 41 

supervising  principal,  may  appoint,  sections 

92  and  93 41 

supplies,  how  provided,  section  95 42 

suspension  of  member  of,  section  16 11 

teachers,    appointment   of,   sections  93   and 

100    41,  43 

contracts  with,  sections  100,  101 
and  104,  and  rules  1  and  2.  . 

43,  44,  46,  125 
v 


INDEX.  211 

Pages. 

Townships  (see  also  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  District  Tax  and 
Union-Graded  Schools). 

board  of  education,  teachers,  dismissal  of,  section  101 44 

salaries  of,  sections  100,  101,  103, 

104  and  107 43,  44,  45,  46 

term  of  office  of,  sections  36,  81  and  82 .  .  20,  35 
text-books,    to   purchase,   sections   91,    divi- 
sions VII.  and  IX.,  93,  144  and  145, 

40,  41,  60 

transportation,  may  provide,  section  111 ...     47 
truant  officers,  may  appoint,  section  150.  . .     62 
vacancy,   how   filled,    sections  81,   91,    divi- 
sion I.,  and  97 35,  39,  43 

bonds,  section  88  and  article  XX 38,  81 

colored  children  not  excluded  from  schools,  section  119 50 

condemn  land  for  school  purposes,  section  91,  division  V 39 

consolidation  of  districts,  sections  35  to  38 19 

contagious  diseases,  schools  closed  in  cases  of,  section  119 49 

pupils  excluded  from  school  if  exposed  to, 

section    115 48 

contracts,  how  made,  sections  94,  95  and  33 41,  42,  117 

corporal  punishment  prohibited,  section  106 46 

corporate  name  of  district,  section  89 38 

course  of  study,  adoption  of,  sections  91,  division  VII.,  93,  and 

rule  48 40,  41,  136 

custodian  of  school  moneys,  article  XIX 78 

debt,  consolidated  district,  sections  38  to  40 21 

district  clerk,  appointment  of,  section  90 38 

tax,  sections  179  and  180 75,  77 

evening  schools,  sections  142  and  143 60 

expulsion  of  pupils,  sections  91,  division  VIII.,  and  114 40,  48 

flags  for  school-houses,  section  234 104 

holidays,  section  104 46 

insurance  of  school  property,  section  91,  division  VI 39 

janitors,  appointment  of,  section  91,  division  II 39 

kindergartens,  sections  139  to  141 59 

legal  voters  at  school  meetings,  sections  86  and  87 37 

libraries,  article  XXV.,  and  rule  63 90,  139 

manual  training,  article  XXIV 89 

medical  inspectors,  sections  179  and  233 75,  103 

notices  for  meetings  of  legal  voters,  section  96 42 

outhouses,  tax  for,  section  121 51 

petition  for  meeting  of  legal  voters,  section  91,  division  X 40 

.   plans  for  school-houses,  sections  122  and  123 51 

property,  title  to,  sections  38  and  247 21,  107 

pupils,  admission  of,  section  118 50 

expulsion  or  suspension  of,  sections  91,  division  VIII., 

105  and  114 40,  46,  48 

tuition  fees  for,  sections  110  and  113 47,  48 

religious  services  in  schools,  section  108 46 

report  of,  section  91,  division  XIII 41 

school-house,  use  of,  for  other  purposes,  section  91,  division  XI.,     41 
seal  of,  section  91,  division  XII 41 


212  INDEX. 

Pages. 

Townships  (see  also  Buildings,  Compulsory  Attendance,  District  Tax  and 
Union-Graded  Schools). 

sinking  fund,  custodian  of,  section  185 81 

special  meetings  of  legal  voters,  section  91,  division  X 40 

supervising  principal,  sections  92  and  132,  division  V 41,  56 

supplies,  how  provided,  section  95 42 

suspension  of  pupils,  sections  91,  division  VIII.,  and  114 40,  48 

teachers,  appointment  of,  sections  91,  division  II.,  93  and  100.  . 

39,  41,  43 
contracts  with,  sections  100,  101  and  104,  and  rules 

1  and  2 43,  44,  125 

rules  for  employment  of,  section  100,  and  rule  3.  .  .43,  125 

salaries  of,  sections  100,  101,  103,  104  and  107 

43,  44,  45,  46 
text-books,  sections  95,  divisions  VII.  and  IX.,  93  and  144.  .40,  41,  60 

transfer  of  pupils,  section  112 47 

transportation  of  pupils,  section  111 47 

truant  officers,  section  150 62 

tuition  fees,  sections  110  and  113 47,  48 

union-graded  schools,  article  XI 53 

vaccination  of  pupils,  sections  115  and  116 48,  49 

Transfer  of  pupils,  orders  for,  section  112 47 

Transportation  of  pupils,  sections  111  and  177,  division  1 47,  73 

Treasurer  Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School  for  Colored  Youth,  sec- 
tion 208 88 

New  Jersey  School  for  the  Deaf,  section  204 87 

Normal  School,  section  196 85 

Teachers'  Retirement  Fund,  section  219 93 

Truant  officers  (see  Compulsory  Attendance). 

Tuition  fees,  sections  61,  110  and  113 27,  47,  48 

U. 

Ungraded  school,  definition  of,  rule  28 131 

Union-graded  schools,  apportionment  to,  section  133 56 

board  of  education,  appointment  of,  sections  127,  128 

and    129 54 

corporate  body,  section  130 54 

removal    of   member   of,    section 

129    54 

powers  of,  sections  132  and  134, 

55,  57 

term  of  office  of,  section  128 ....  54 

vacancy,  how  filled,  section  129.  54 

bonds  for,  sections  136  to  138 57 

borrow  money  for,  section  132,  division  1 55 

buildings  for,  section  132,  division  III 56 

condemn  land,  section  139,  division  II 55 

custodian  of  moneys  of,  appointment,  section  131 .  .  .'  55 

bond  of,  section  131 55 

salary  of,  section  131 55 

election  for,  sections  88  and  126 38,  53 

seal  of,  section  132,  division  IV 56 


INDEX.  213 


Union-graded  schools,  secretary  of,  section  139 55 

supervising  principal  of,  section  132,  division  V 56 

supervision  of,  section  135 57 

tax  for,  section  132,  division  III 56 

teachers  in,  section  132,  division  III 56 

V. 

Vacancy,  boards  of  education,  sections  42,  43,  46,  81,  91,  division  I.,  97 

and    129 23,  24,  35,  39,  43,  54 

County  Superintendent,  section  12 10 

District  Clerk,  section  90 38 

State  Board  of  Education,  section  1 7 

Vaccination  of  pupils,  sections  115  and  116 48,  49 

W. 

Women,  board  of  education,  may  be  member  of,  section  85 36 

vote  at  school  meetings,  except  for  members  of  board  of  education, 

section  86 37 

Y. 

Year,  school,  definition  of,  section  242 106 


214  INDEX. 


BLANKS  AND  FORMS. 


Forms  for  County  Superintendents. 

appointment  of  a  President  or  District  Clerk,  XIX 152 

apportionment  of  balances,  notice  to  Custodian,  XVII 151 

District  Clerk,  XVIII 151 

balances,  notices  of,  XVII.  and  XVIII 151 

order  for,  XI 149 

certificate  condemning  school-house,  XVI 150 

directions  for  examination  for,  LII 179 

revoking  teacher's,  XIV.  and  XV 150 

transfer  of  pupils,  1 144 

condemnation  of  school-house,  certificate  for,  XVI 150 

District  Clerk,  notice  that  the  teacher  has  filed  report,  XIII .  . .   149 

examinations,  directions  for,  LII 179 

notices  of,  IV 145 

examiner's  salary,  orders  for,  XII 149 

expenses,  statement  of,  V 146 

institute,  certificate  of  attendance  at,  III 145 

notice  of ,  II 144 

notice  of  balances,  XVII.  and  XVIII 151 

examination,  IV 145 

meeting  for  examination  of  teachers,  IV 145 

institute,  II 144 

to  District  Clerk  that  teacher  has  filed  report,  XIII 149 

orders,  balances,  XI 149 

examiner's  salary,   XII 149 

reserve  fund,  IX 148 

State  appropriation,   VII 147 

school  fund  appropriation,  VI 147 

school  tax,   VIII 148 

surplus  revenue,   X 148 

transfer  of  pupils,  1 144 

to  withhold  school  moneys  from  district,  XXI 152 

teacher's   salary,   XX 152 

reserve  fund,  order  for,  IX 148 

State  appropriation,  order  for,  VII 147 

school  fund  appropriation,  order  for,  VI 147 

tax,  order  for,  VIII 148 

surplus  revenue,  order  for,  X '. 148 

teacher's  certificate,  orders  revoking,  XIV.  and  XV 150 

transfer  of  pupils,  certificate  for,  1 144 

withhold  salary  from  teacher,  order  for,  XX 152 

school  money  from  district,  order  for,  XXI 152 


INDEX.  215 

Pages. 
Forms  for  City  Superintendents. 

application  for  State  aid  for  manual  training,  XXIV 155 

contract,  teacher's,  XXIII 154 

library  application,  XXII 154 

report  of  purchases , 164 

Forms  for  District  Clerks. 

affidavit  to  bill,  form  of  XXXIV 163 

annual  district  meeting,  notice  for,  XXV 157 

application  for  loan  from  State  school  fund,  XLIII 171 

State  aid  for  library,  XXXV 163 

manual  training,  XXXVIII 165 

Board  of  Education,  notice  of  election  as  memebr  of,  XLVI. .  . .  174 

meeting  of,  XLV: 174 

report  of  election  of,  XXXI 160 

bonds,  certificate  to  Assessor  for  tax  for,  XL 167 

County  Superintendent,  of  tax  for,  XLI .  .  167 

directions  for  proceedings,  XLIV 172 

for  school  loan,  XXXIX 166 

report  of  proceedings  for,  XLII 168 

certificates  of  tax  for  bonds,  XL.  and  XLI 167 

current  expenses,  XXXII.  and  XXXIIL,  161 

contract  for  building,  XLIX 176 

with  teacher,  XXXVII 164 

deed  for  school  property,  XLVIII 175 

directions  for  bonding,   XLIV 172 

duties   of,    LI 178 

lease,   XLVII 174 

library,  application  for  State  aid,  XXXV 163 

report  of  purchases,  XXXVI 164 

loan,  bonds  for,  XXXIX 166 

from  State  school  fund,  application,  XLIII 171 

note  for,  L 177 

proceedings    authorizing,    XLII 168 

manual  training,  application  for  State  aid,  XXXVIII 165 

meeting,    items   that   may   be   inserted   in    notice   for   district, 

XXVII 158 

notice  for  annual  district,  XXV 157 

Board  of  Education,  XLV 174 

special  district,  XXVI 157 

note,  L 177 

notice,  annual  district  meeting,  XXV 157 

for  special  district  meeting,  XXVI 157 

items  that  may  be  inserted  in  district  meeting,  XXVII.,  158 

meeting  of  Board  of  Education,  XLV 174 

members  of  Board  of  Education  of  election,  XLVI 174 

order  of  business  at  district  meeting,  XXVIII 158 

miscellaneous  purposes,   XXX 160 

teacher's  salary,  XXIX 159 

report  of  election  of  Board  of  Education,  XXXI 160 

library  purchases,   XXXVI 164 

proceedings  authorizing  bonds,  XLII 168 

special  district  meeting,  notice  for,  XXVI .  157 


216  INDEX. 

Pages. 
Forms  for  District  Clerks. 

tax  for  bonds,  notice  to  Assessor,  XL 167 

County  Superintendent,  XLI 167 

current    expenses,    notice    to    Assessor,    XXXIII ....  161 

County    Superintendent, 

XXXII 161 

teacher,  contract  with,  XXXVII 164 

Form  for  Teachers. 

certificate  of  attendance  of  pupil,  LV 184 

contract,   XXXVII 164 

examinations,  county,  directions  for,  LII 179 

State,  rules  for 180 

Normal  diplomas,  rules  for  indorsement 184 

report  of  suspension  of  pupil,  LVII 185 

to  County  Superintendent,  LVI 185 

Form  for  District  Meetings. 

minutes  authorizing  bonds,  XLII 168 

notice  to  members  of  Board  of  Education  elected  at,  XLVI. . .  .  174 

order  of  business,  XXVIII 158 

Miscellaneous  Forms  and  Directions. 

calendar  for  school  election  and  duties 186 


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